The Pennsylvania was already one of the nation's largest railroads, boasting a single track between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. To step aboard a train on the Pennsylvania meant stepping into the ...

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...

In this series, we have taken a detailed look at the concept of through-running for regional railroads operated by transit ...

Gradually, though, he came alive for William and Frank Watson, twin brothers who are leading an excavation at a pre-Civil War railroad construction site outside Philadelphia, where 57 Irish ...

Built on a compound curve, it was over 700 feet long and consisted of two deck-truss and two through-truss spans bridging the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Schuylkill Canal, the journal ...

Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America ...

One of the most fun (and delicious) things to do in Philadelphia is taste your way through Reading Terminal Market. Located beneath the Reading Railroad's 1891 train station (a National Historic ...

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The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being ...