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More than 80 people stood on a Steamtown railroad platform Friday morning awaiting the arrival of a recently restored ...
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the Commonwealth ...
All aboard! The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will depart on a new project soon. The PA Historical and Museum Commission announced plans to break ground this month on a new roundhouse at the ...
Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar items like better pay, voting rights and health care benefits. They're also asking for one unique condition: to shift their ...
A steam locomotive that has been on display at the Franklin Institute for the last 90 years was recently removed and will be relocated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
By the 1920s it was one of 7 trunk lines that gave Cleveland its reputation for having one of the best transportation systems in the country. At its height, the Pennsylvania Railroad operated over 66 ...
It took 20 people a few hours to set up one of the world's largest mobile model train displays inside the Railroad Museum of ...
The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes.None of the ...
Bristol; Freight Trains CollidePHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.--At 12:45 this morning a serious accident occurred on the NewYork division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bristol, 23 miles from this city ...
Pennsylvania ‘train in my yard’ railroad, nearly killed by Hurricane Agnes, turns 140 years old; $1.40 train rides ...
The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being ...
Pennsylvania locomotive manufacturing workers are striking for greener jobs A 1,400-worker strike at a locomotive plant is part of a larger trend of national labor organizing and calls for a just ...