Sign-up for email today! A westbound Penn Central freight rounds Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, Pa., on May 30, 1969, on ...

Soon, the invention of the steam locomotive gave Pittsburgh even better access to the East. William Foster Jr. was among the early officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which linked Pittsburgh ...

The trackside park at America’s oldest train-watching site – Horseshoe Curve, on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line in ...

Amtrak’s plan to expand passenger rail service from Pittsburgh to New York is still on track. The plan, finalized by PennDOT ...

First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests. But Mellon ...

The transit telescope at the Allegheny Observatory was used to measure sidereal time, or “star time,” the basis for modern ...

boasting a single track between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. To step aboard a train on the Pennsylvania meant stepping into the future. The railroad was a technological risk-taker, experimenting ...

BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (KDKA) — There is a legend that goes ... it was June of 1919 and they had a bet to climb up on the Harmony railroad bridge in Beaver Falls and count how many eggs were in ...

The City of Pittsburgh offers recycling of corrugated plastic signs at the Strip District Drop-Off Center, located at 3001 ...

Pennsylvania police have arrested a man who is suspected of fatally stabbing another man Monday afternoon along a popular ...

The convergence of three powerful forces will shape next month’s election in places like Charleroi and throughout the Rust Belt.

Pennsylvania police have arrested a man who is suspected of fatally stabbing another man Monday afternoon along a popular recreational trail outside of Pittsburgh. Anthony Quesen, 25, has been ...