President Donald Trump recently signed some Executive Orders intended to boost what he called “beautiful clean coal.” He said ...

The railroad was a technological risk-taker, experimenting in 1858 with the unorthodox notion of using coal instead of wood for locomotive fuel. A year later, the Pennsylvania replaced the candles ...

Already, its skies wore a black gauze of coal ... steam locomotive gave Pittsburgh even better access to the East. William Foster Jr. was among the early officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad ...

Baltimore reveres its railroad traditions, yet its smallest lines have captured an outsized emotional attachment. The old Maryland and Pennsylvania ... its smoke-spewing coal-fired trains passed ...