The Penn Central Railroad Historical Society is lending a helping hand to Altoona’s Railroaders Memorial Museum with fundraising efforts to restore an N10 steel class cabin car, which was the last to ...

Bob Lykens of Duncansville submitted this photo of the Penn Central Railroad Station on 13th Street at 10th Avenue. The Penn Central ran a dozen passenger trains a day from 1968 to 1971 when Amtrak ...

“The public,” insists Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman William H. Tucker, “should not have to wait half a generation for a railroad merger to be decided.” In the case of the biggest railroad ...

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company (PRR) is incorporated, uniting several early rail lines under one company. By the end of the century, the company will control nearly 10,000 miles of railroad, ...