Royal Hudson No. 2839, all 3,039 tons of her, sat regally, if a bit tattered, on an Allentown railroad siding Sunday while men — mere dots next to the steam locomotive’s hulking frame — crawled onto ...
NORTH WHITEHALL TWP, Pa. - Hundreds of thousands of people pass by a 1955 Plymouth Locomotive on the Ironton Rail Trail each year. Now, that piece of local history is being restored. This has been a ...
Steam locomotive No. 126, relic of an era when coal was king, rolled into Kutztown on Thursday afternoon for a two-weekend engagement at the borough’s historic train station. The coal-fired locomotive ...
A Norfolk Southern locomotive is at the end of the line as it crosses South Albert Street Thursday in Allentown. Amtrak released a plan to grow rail service across America with new and enhanced routes ...
A steam locomotive that spent its working years at the Hazleton Shaft Colliery will take passengers on scenic rides through Berks County this and next weekend. The restored Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
On July 4, 1835, Richard Jones placed a miniature steam engine inside a 61/2-foot-long wooden boat with side wheels and launched it in the Wilkes-Barre canal basin. Jones, a local mill worker, had ...
The March 2 derailment of trains along the Lehigh River caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage and sent all seven crew members involved to the hospital, federal investigators said Tuesday. Three ...
N. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Hitching a ride on a flatbed, a 1955 Plymouth Locomotive has returned home. "This is going to be like the icing on the cake. We had 320,000 people that used the trail last ...
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