Pennsylvania Railroad served Schuylkill for 80 years
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 pushed ...
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News & Products for the week of March 10th 2025
News & Products for the week of March 10th 2025 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about ...
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New Roundhouse to Preserve Historic Locomotives at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
six-stall roundhouse at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. Designed to provide essential storage and protection for historic steam locomotives, the new facility aims to enhance ...
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Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway announces bike train schedule
The Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway will partner again with Pocono Biking in 2025 to offer its popular Bike Trains on select ...
Baltimore rail project will allow CSX new mid-Atlantic access for first time
The freight trains that labored to climb through Baltimore’s historic Howard Street Tunnel disappeared a few weeks ago. For ...
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The 'Pen Mar Experience' was fun for all through the early 20th century
Franklin County historian Mike Marotte shares the story of the old Pen Mar Park just over the Md. line near Wayneboro.
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Locomotive history is chugging its way in to the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum
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Baltimore rail project will allow CSX new mid-Atlantic access for first time
The freight trains that labored ... and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The tunnel and the Belt Line have a fancy historic pedigree. It was hand dug, with maybe a steam shovel, between 1890 ...
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Historic steam locomotive to return to Mid-Continent Railway Museum
The nonprofit museum’s collection is focused on railroad equipment from between 1885 and 1915, when steam locomotives moved 90% of the ... and the 63-inch-diameter drive wheels were honed in ...
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Pennsylvania, the swing state that defies conventional wisdom
Pennsylvania's U.S. senators ... The product they made here revolutionized the railroad industry, producing air brakes that permitted trains to travel safely at higher speeds, accelerating ...
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The 'Pen Mar Experience' was fun for all through the early 20th century
Many years have passed since the last of the magnificent Western Maryland Railroad steam engines with their ... Other than the passenger trains operated by the Western Maryland Railroad, in ...
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Bidding process begins for roundhouse at Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
16,000-square-foot roundhouse at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania to house six Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives. The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission announced the beginning of ...