Skip the car ride—take a scenic trip through Berks County on the Allentown and Auburn Railroad, a charming summer experience ...

In 1856 a C&P train departing Cleveland became the first to burn coal in its locomotive engine; a more efficient fuel, coal quickly supplanted wood as the railroads' energy source. In 1871 the C&P was ...

“Through the later years, the Pennsylvania Railroad coal trains were to run wild down this hazardous grade and pile up in Darkwater,” Hobbs wrote. “But in 1886, ...

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 ...