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 ...

Jim Rice had no particular interest in trains when he first got a job as a groundskeeper at Strasburg Rail Road in 1973.

The first T1s burned coal. No. 5550 will run on oil ... talked about the technical differences, "If the [Pennsylvania Railroad] is building steam locomotives today, this is how they'd do it.

by the use of wood for locomotive fuel, we long ago (when no other kind was used) repeatedly directed attention to the substitution of coal for wood on our railroads Stubborn at one period in ...

A historic locomotive is currently being restored in Topton, and a donation from a national railroad company is aiding the ...

POTTSVILLE, Penn., Dec. 23.--A fatal accident, horrible in its completeness, occurred on the Schuykill Valley Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, a few miles from this place ...

611 is the last diesel locomotive to survive intact from the legendary Lehigh & New England Railroad, states RIPS. They state that this railroad connected the cement, slate and coal regions of ...

Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad has expanded its fleet of passenger cars for excursions in a season that will see ...