"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

West met East here Thursday morning (Feb. 13, 2025) as the East Broad Top Railroad took ownership of former Durango & ...

A footnote: Today's Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Trust is designing and building a replica. Articulated steam locomotives, both Mallet and simple, saw service to the end of the steam era. Ironically ...

"If you think about Pennsylvania's golden era, there really is no machine that better represents that golden era than the steam locomotive," said Nathaniel Guest, executive director of the ...

A Bethlehem museum is adding world-renowned photographs to its list of collections. WDIY’s James Zipprodt reports.

The 611 left the North Carolina Transportation Museum Monday morning beginning its journey to Pennsylvania. It’s under steam but a Norfolk Southern diesel engine is towing the locomotive and its ...

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In 1853 when Carnegie joined the Pennsylvania Railroad ... safety was a more basic concern. Locomotives were safe enough if the boiler steam remained at moderate levels, but if stoked too high ...