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The East Broad Top Railroad in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania has restored a 107-year-old, steam-powered locomotive built by Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. The foundation ...
Pennsylvania locomotive manufacturing workers are striking for greener jobs ... The plant workers in Erie, two hours north of Pittsburgh, manufacture locomotives for Wabtec Corporation.
A steam locomotive that has been on display at the Franklin Institute for the last 90 years was recently removed and will be relocated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.
M1b No. 6755, a 4-8-2 “Mountain” type steam locomotive constructed in 1930; K4s No. 3750, a 4-6-2 “Pacific” type steam locomotive, built in 1920 and designated as Pennsylvania’s official ...
Steamtown, located in the heart of Scranton, works to preserve and interpret the history of steam railroading in the United ...
Altogether, 32 Pennsylvania companies are competing for the cool designation in a bracket-style elimination process. And those Wabtec locomotives face a steep challenge.
Steam Locomotive 5288 was built for the Grand Trunk Railway and was later owned and operated by the Canadian National until being sold to Nelson Blount in 1961. It became part of the Steamtown ...
Wabtec locomotives, many of them built in Erie, have some laudable planet-saving environmental credentials. But these 400,000-pound giants have something else going for them. They're cool, cool ...
Along its 10,000 miles of mainline track raced Pennsylvania locomotives pulling empty cars to flake the rust off the rails. Safety crews hustled to inspect thousands of switches. After a twelve-day ...
Locomotives are the engine of the train and generally run on diesel fuel. Manufacturing workers have been on strike since June 22 and are represented by the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine ...