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 ...

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 ...

Several of them were approved, chief among which was the joint resolution providing for a special committee to make an investigation of the affairs of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company ...

POTTSVILLE, June 30.--President Gowen, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, has issued a statement addressed to the stockholders of that company giving, in the name of the Board of ...

Tubman is known as the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad. She spent time in Cape May and Philadelphia after escaping slavery herself and then helped other enslaved people get to freedom.