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.

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

An OSHA investigation determined the employee was fired in retaliation for refusing to issue locomotive and conductor licenses to an untrained, unqualified candidate ...

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 ...