The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

East Broad Top Railroad Engine # 15, a Baldwin Mikado built in 1914. In a quiet valley, nestled in the hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of south central Pennsylvania is the picturesque railroad town ...

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The historic East Broad Top Railroad, a narrow-gauge former coal carrier on its second revival as a heritage line, reached a symbolic milestone Aug. 8 when a train steamed into a rural Pennsylvania ...

THE DETAILS ON THIS. BAILEY. YEAH, GUYS, IT’S BEEN SINCE 2002 THAT THEY’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROJECT. AND NOW, 20 YEARS LATER, IT IS FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION. THE RAILROAD MUSEUM OF ...

STRASBURG, Pa. — Hobbies come in all shapes and sizes. But for the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society, their massive mobile model is a passion. “It’s fun because we try to portray the old ...

LOWER MERION – Most people know the basic story of how the Main Line got its name. The quickest version is that it comes from the old Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the rail line that now ...

In 1827 Philadelphia businessman Josiah White created a nine-mile, mule-powered railroad in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal regions. It was designed to bring coal to Mauch Chunk and the Lehigh Canal. T ...