ATTLEBORO - It's said that no good deed goes unpunished, and that's clearly true for the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority, which has found itself in a nightmarish bureaucratic tangle that could stop ...

Do you ever wonder how trains move on a busy line like the New Haven division of Metro-North? How do they switch from track to track, make their scheduled stops and try to stay on schedule? It’s all ...

LIMA — On a pleasant early Sunday evening in June 1905, Lima residents lined the tracks and crowded the platform of the Pennsylvania Railroad station waiting for a passenger train that wasn’t going to ...

ATTLEBORO — After idling on a spur for years, the seven-year effort to save an historic railroad switch tower now seems to be back on the main line. City Solicitor Robert Mangiaratti told the ...

The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society now owns the Harris Switch Tower near downtown Harrisburg, Pa. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the tower was built ...

Rail towers were narrow buildings, two stories tall and always next to the railroad tracks. Workers switched tracks, handed out train orders and performed other duties for the railroad. Slowly, as the ...

The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society now owns the Harris Switch Tower near downtown Harrisburg. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the tower was built in ...

After three days of trying, workers from Springfield’s Parkland Environmental Group demolished Ridgely Tower Monday morning. Ridgely was one of the last manned railroad control towers in Illinois. The ...

Families, local officials and train enthusiasts took part in a ribbon cutting celebrating the new Race Street Tower and The Whistle Stop exhibits at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg on ...