Railroad News

An historic house in Antrim Township faces an uncertain future. Owner Alfred Bonnell would like to see the two-story stone house, soon to be surrounded by new development, preserved.

Deborah Deasy can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7989. Seed beads, earring wires and flakes of algae-tinged sandstone all decorate the new Fallingwater at Carnegie Science Center.

I was given a wonderful opportunity to spend the weekend exploring the Masion-Dixon Wine trail.

A 425-foot, 80-year-old smokestack slowly came crashing down near 30th Street Station on Sunday morning.

Bruce Yealy, commander of the 16th Pennsylvania Company G re-enactment group from Hanover, talks to South Western High School students about the Abraham Lincoln monument along Railroad Street in Hanover.

W HITE ROSES: To Mark Platts for winning the John Stuchell Award for his role in preserving the historic sites at the last two Susquehannock Indian settlements along the Susquehanna River.

Standing tall within the clouds, the view of the smokestack atop the old Pennsylvania Railroad steam plant near Amtrak's 30th Street station ended Sunday morning with a thunderous boom.

A 425-foot smokestack on Amtrak's 30th Street Station property is scheduled to be imploded over the weekend.

A long-running boundary dispute between Portage and Washington townships appears to have been resolved during an informal meeting Wednesday.

Milesburg resident Paula Ghaner and her grandson Norman Paul, 2, walk around the set of the movie "Unstoppable" today so Norman can see the train, helicopters, firetrucks and other emergency equipment brought in for the last day of filming in Pennsylvania.

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.