Two new bills that would work to improve rail safety across the Commonwealth are headed to a committee for consideration.

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 ...

HARMAR TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Emergency crews rescued a woman ... the woman broke her leg when she fell and was found near railroad tracks. The tracks were blocked by a stopped train which was later ...

By 1900, the Pennsylvania Railroad, led by President Alexander Cassatt, was the largest corporation in the world, operating more than 10,000 miles of track between New York and the Mississippi River.

A train derailed in Western Pennsylvania, leaving a street blocked and power out, Connellsville Mayor Greg Lincoln said on ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced the temporary closure of a railroad crossing on Route 74 in York ...

“Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being pushed with all diligence,” the journal wrote. “Already five miles of track beyond Reading have been laid and ...

A freight railroad transloading company is operating at Lackawaxen, taking delivery of crushed local quarry stone for ...

Emergency crews are on the scene of a train derailment in Fayette County. The derailment happened in the area of Water Street ...

As the express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ... baggage and smoking cars off the track and down an embankment. The passenger cars, with the exception of the smoking car, remained on the ...

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 pushed ...