Railroad News

When a 15-year-old boy was killed by a train in Derry in July, Mayor Susan Bortz thought that people would stop walking across those railroad tracks that split town.

Submitted by voicesweb on Tue, 2008-03-04 20:53. Trains poised for comeback in Central Pa.

The Pullman porter dormitory soon will be gone , too. Historians credit the uniformed railroad attendants, many of whom were African American and were restricted to the basement, with laying the groundwork for the civil-rights movement.

The York Daily Record obtained a list Thursday of the nearly 80 men cited in connection with a sex sting into illicit behavior at two York County parks since August.

"With the end of every day there is felt a more pressing need in this valley for a Monongahela Valley Chamber of Commerce." Those words sound familiar, right? Perhaps they were spoken or written in recent years by proponents of the time-honored theory of strength in numbers.

It usually takes 20 to 30 minutes to drive to Carnegie Mellon University from the former LTV site in Hazelwood.

You ask Youker is a weekly feature providing answers to quirky curiosities of the Berks County area.

The Federal Railroad Administration is considering whether to create a high-speed rail line between Pittsburgh and Cleveland after pleas from two state governors.

Mount Vernon Cemetery in Hamilton Township has been designated as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.

Amtrak is recommending that another train be added to the sparse service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, if state and federal legislators decide the additional ridership is worth the expense.

The rich history of the railroad in Cambria County will be played out in song and story Sunday at the Portage Area Historical Society.

A new book, "Remembering Monroeville: From Frontier to Boomtown," by Zandy Dudiak has been released by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. In the book, Dudiak, news editor of the Times Express in Monroeville - a Trib Total Media newspaper - relates 28 stories detailing Monroeville's evolution as part of Plum through its days as rural Patton ...

An encouraging upswing continues at local auction houses as galleries prepare for upcoming sales that include an outcropping of significant pieces among consignments that are generally above average.

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania soon will be inviting guests on a journey to places few visitors have gone before.

After weeks of frenzied activity, the Best Western University Park Inn and Suites opened Friday on Shiloh Road.

With her 110th birthday on Oct. 18, Agnes Wetzel would rank among the world's 75 oldest people, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks claims of extreme old age.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it has received applications from 24 states seeking $50 billion for high-speed rail projects, more than six times the money designated in the economic stimulus plan.

Locomotives thunder past English boxwoods and a Japanese red maple in the Manheim Township backyard of Mark and Mary Beth Oles.

Members of the Tri-County Rails-to-Trails Association recently accepted a $600 donation from controller Mark Vosacek on behalf of the Corporate Foundation of ARC Metals and Anchor Specialties to benefit the Clarion/Little Toby Trail, an 18-mile trail that runs from Ridgway to Brockway.

A very special and unique train will be operated over the Cape May Seashore Lines Railroad on Saturday, Nov.