In the wake of the Amtrak 188 derailment, which killed eight people and injured about 200 passengers and crew members, many are questioning the safety of Pennsylvania's rail service. BigTrial.net ...
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad announced they would be tunneling into Manhattan. When the Pennsylvania Railroad announced they would be tunneling into Manhattan, rather than building a bridge, people were ...
Becoming the fifth president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Being the sixth of seven generations to live on a Main Line estate called Pencoyd that dates back to 1683. Being a father of six children and ...
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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 ...
Attendees of the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum’s upcoming annual ‘Tuxedo Junction dinner,’ which is being held on the 31st of January, will once again have the opportunity to get immersed in the ...
In 1961 the Pennsylvania Railroad announced it had sold the air rights above Penn Station. In 1961, the financially strapped Pennsylvania Railroad announced it had sold the air rights above Penn ...