Train 2522 is a hulking figure of rusting black metal, echoing back to its heyday when the train hauled tons of coal throughout the state. For more than half a century, children played on the train at ...

ASHLAND, Pa. — Ralph Buchspics from Ashland works at the same mine his grandfather did decades ago. “He was a miner, so he mined coal inside of there. Most of them were digging, digging and digging, ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

On Thursday, Sept. 1, two World War II era train locomotives that were donated from Fergus Falls are now on the tracks at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion. An engineer Thursday, Sept. 1, ...

The historic East Broad Top Railroad, a narrow-gauge former coal carrier on its second revival as a heritage line, reached a symbolic milestone Aug. 8 when a train steamed into a rural Pennsylvania ...

After 50 years, the “Funeral Train” still haunts area railroad enthusiasts and anthracite mining historians. The train, consisting of a few aging cabooses and freight cars, pulled out of the Central ...