On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...

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The saga surrounding the sidelining of Amtrak’s Acela Express has become something of a railroad soap opera. In the latest installment, Amtrak officials recently ordered the fleet of 20 Acelas be ...

The dieselization of the Pennsylvania Railroad did not do any favors for the city of Altoona, according to Albert Churella, a history professor at Kennesaw State University, who penned a three-book ...