The Houghton County Historical Society has restored and recertified the Calumet & Hecla Mine #3 Steam Locomotive. Visitors ...

The Nickel Plate 190 locomotive makes a return to the tracks, captivating rail fans at Steamtown National Historic Site ...

More than 80 people stood on a Steamtown railroad platform Friday morning awaiting the arrival of a recently restored ...

The Strasburg Rail Road stands proudly in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, where horse-drawn buggies share roads with ...

This isn’t your typical tourist trap with actors pretending and props standing in for the real thing—these are authentic vintage steam locomotives pulling meticulously restored passenger cars through ...

PSU railroad program picking up steam State Transportation Committee hearing discusses region’s effect on Pa. economy Local News May 29, 2025 ...

The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being ...

“These trips featured an iconic T1 steam locomotive roaring through the Lehigh Gorge under its own power for the first time in nearly fifty years,” Reading & Northern Railroad said.

“These trips featured an iconic T1 steam locomotive roaring through the Lehigh Gorge under its own power for the first time in nearly fifty years,” Reading & Northern Railroad said.

A footnote: Today’s Pennsylvania Railroad T1 Trust is designing and building a replica. Articulated steam locomotives, both Mallet and simple, saw service to the end of the steam era.

The Pennsylvania Railroad had different thoughts, believing steam — if the technology could be pushed further — would yield more efficient power than a diesel locomotive.