The Pennsylvania was already one of the nation's largest railroads, boasting a single track between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. To step aboard a train on the Pennsylvania meant stepping into the ...

Gradually, though, he came alive for William and Frank Watson, twin brothers who are leading an excavation at a pre-Civil War railroad construction site outside Philadelphia, where 57 Irish ...

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 ...

Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America ...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may ...

Built on a compound curve, it was over 700 feet long and consisted of two deck-truss and two through-truss spans bridging the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and the Schuylkill Canal, the journal ...