More than 50 years on now, the spectacular collapse of the Penn Central railroad in 1970 is little remembered today, but its legacy is still with us—not so much as a warning, but as a prelude: to New ...

Massive Railroad Bankruptcy: The Penn Central Transportation Company was created in 1968 via a merger between the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads.The Pennsylvania Railroad dated back ...

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 ...

Ridership had dwindled, and Penn Central Railroad was running out of cash. One of the juiciest assets in its withering portfolio was the station itself, or, to be precise, the air above it.

Paterson silk mill strike: In 1913, 23,000 Paterson silk mill workers went on the longest strike in the city’s history, lasting more than five months.More than 1,800 workers were arrested during ...

As passenger rail became less popular, New York Central Railroad merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad, appointing the very man who had torn down Penn Station–Stuart Saunders–as CEO of the new ...

SHIPPENSBURG - With the help of a $71,000 matching grant, the Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trails Council will turn a historic 1956 Penn Central boxcar into the Cumberland Valley Railroad Museum.

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 ...

Those of you who know me well know that I was a brakeman on the Penn Central Railroad while in college. That was 45 years ago, but the recent crude-by-rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has had me ...