Kennett Square heralds itself as the mushroom capital of the world. But what many people don't know is that it was a crucial stop for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.

the 4636 wears the iconic Pennsylvania Railroad “Tuscan Red” paint scheme in honor of that railroad’s innovative and behemoth GG1 locomotive. NJ TRANSIT inherited several GG1s at its formation, one of ...

(WHTM) – The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is celebrating a golden anniversary. The museum, located in Strasburg, is being recognized for 50 years of sharing railroad history. A new exhibit in ...

The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD was one of the 3 major components of the CONRAIL network, which included the ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD and the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD. Pennsylvania Railroad operations in ...

Since then, LA&L has expanded significantly, including expansion from Avon to Rochester as well as the Bath & Hammondsport Railroad in 1996, formation of the Western New York & Pennsylvania ...

Baltimore reveres its railroad traditions, yet its smallest lines have captured an outsized emotional attachment. The old Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, called the Ma & Pa or just the M&P ...

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 ...

A trestle once used by the Pennsylvania Railroad towers over Route 61 between Pottsville and St. Clair. (FILE) The most famous of the PRR bridges was the trestle over Route 61, north of Saint Clair.

Wearing the Maroon and Tuscan color scheme of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the cars had been part of the Penn Valley Railroad in Sunbury. For 27 years, they carried rail fans on fall foliage and ...

“My father worked for three different railroads,” he says. “I think it started out with the Pennsylvania railroad, then went to Conrail, then Norfolk Southern, in 42 years on the railroad.

‘The Polar Express’ will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. STRASBURG — All aboard to see the new classic holiday film “The ...