Railroads in many ways are unique because, regardless of how many years they’ve been in business, there is usually a storied history that can be recalled. The best way to do that is by applying ...

The dieselization of the Pennsylvania Railroad did not do any favors for the city of Altoona, according to Albert Churella, a history professor at Kennesaw State University, who penned a three-book ...

Courtesy photo Author John Wall is shown by the Pennsylvania Railroads’ GG-1 locomotive on display at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona. John Wall, a former Altoona Mirror writer and editor, ...

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has met a $50,000 matching grant challenge by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, with funds designated for the preservation of five historic ...

On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...

It was called "The Standard Railroad of the World." In its name, tracks were laid, stations were built, empires were forged and people were ferried to distant cities in passenger cars hauled by ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Train Simulator 2021: PRR RF-16 'Sharknose' Loco The distinctive Baldwin RF-16 with 'Sharknose' design comes to Train Simulator 2021, from Digital Train ...

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 ...