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 ...

UPDATE: The GG1 was pulled into the Harrisburg train station around 10:40 a.m., and was in place at 11:05 a.m. The historic GG1 Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive No. 4859 will be returned to its ...

Steam Into History Inc. has a new locomotive to pull its excursion trains -- a 1950s diesel that was part of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The locomotive moved down the tracks recently to the station in ...

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 ...

Five steam locomotives, destined for preservation at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, are the focus of a $50,000 matching fund challenge. The museum is running a $250,000 Ready for the Roundhouse ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production ...