Joe Michel was a 16-year-old student when he heard a presentation at his school about the old Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railroad and got inspired. “I thought someday, I’m going to… ...

The Pennsylvania portion is only about 400 miles of the meandering 3,652-mile route from Provincetown, Mass., to Long Beach, Calif. Connecting the East with the West in 1937 and fully paved in ...

It’s been more than half a century since the trains of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad — quaintly remembered by old-timers in these parts as the Ma & Pa — rolled over a single set of ...

A trestle once used by the Pennsylvania Railroad towers over Route 61 between Pottsville and St. Clair. (FILE) The most famous of the PRR bridges was the trestle over Route 61, north of Saint Clair.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22 -- President A. J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad has selected the following engineers as a commission of experts to supervise and approve all the plans for the ...