Lackawanna County commissioners awarded Wednesday an almost $3.6 million contract for the resurfacing of Montage Mountain ...

When flames gutted an abandoned Marsh Supermarket at Irvington Plaza over the weekend, it partially scrapped the plans of a ...

Review of rail passenger service between Chicago and Florida including the return of the Amtrak Floridian in 2024 ...

I dabbled a great deal in narrow gauge modeling over the years, but found U.S. main line Class I railroads more to my taste. I like the operation potential of main lines, with many categories of ...

For top man their choice seems likely to fall on Pennsy Chairman James M. Symes (pronounced Sims), 64, a railroad man all his life. His directors are pressing him to postpone his retirement in ...

Simon Hen was reportedly angry about a pending separation from his wife. She, their three children, and a guest were at the home, and all survived. Five people were injured in a housefire set Sunday ...

614 [see “New group buys C&O 4-8-4 …,” Trains News Wire, Nov. 8, 2024]. No. 1361, built in Altoona’s PRR Juniata Shops in 1918, was retired in 1957 and placed on display in the trackside park at the ...

ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer ...

Before there was the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), there were the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR or “the Pennsy”) and the Philadelphia & Reading, generally known as the ...

UK: Austrian railway construction and maintenance contractor Swietelsky has acquired 100% of the shares of locomotive hire, storage and maintenance company Harry Needle Railroad Co. The purchase for a ...

A Pennsylvania man accused of killing and dismembering his roommate last year was found dead in his jail cell before he was to stand trial. Lehigh County officials said Joshua Moser, 34, committed ...