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 ...

A portion of what was once the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad curves around a former flour mill in York County. Fewer Pennsylvanians ride the state’s rail these days, but a network of train lovers ...

It’s been more than half a century since the trains of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad — quaintly remembered by old-timers in these parts as the Ma & Pa — rolled over a single set of tracks on ...

GALLITZIN, Pa. (WTAJ) — During the month of September, the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site recognized International Underground Railroad Month. The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the ...

Located near the geographical center of Pennsylvania, Altoona is a city known for transportation connections. Since the mid-1800s, transportation through western Pennsylvania has relied heavily on the ...

Lower Merion and Radnor townships received their “Main Line” designation from the Pennsylvania Railroad after it laid out tracks through the small villages of each township. What the railroad, or more ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg began a week-long highlight of the famous Reading Railroad during Reading Railroad Days. The centerpiece is a detailed HO ...

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