Bruce Yealy, commander of the 16th Pennsylvania Company G re-enactment group from Hanover, talks to South Western High School students about the Abraham Lincoln monument along Railroad Street in Hanover.
W HITE ROSES: To Mark Platts for winning the John Stuchell Award for his role in preserving the historic sites at the last two Susquehannock Indian settlements along the Susquehanna River.
Standing tall within the clouds, the view of the smokestack atop the old Pennsylvania Railroad steam plant near Amtrak's 30th Street station ended Sunday morning with a thunderous boom.
Milesburg resident Paula Ghaner and her grandson Norman Paul, 2, walk around the set of the movie "Unstoppable" today so Norman can see the train, helicopters, firetrucks and other emergency equipment brought in for the last day of filming in Pennsylvania.
When a 15-year-old boy was killed by a train in Derry in July, Mayor Susan Bortz thought that people would stop walking across those railroad tracks that split town.
The Pullman porter dormitory soon will be gone , too. Historians credit the uniformed railroad attendants, many of whom were African American and were restricted to the basement, with laying the groundwork for the civil-rights movement.
The York Daily Record obtained a list Thursday of the nearly 80 men cited in connection with a sex sting into illicit behavior at two York County parks since August.
"With the end of every day there is felt a more pressing need in this valley for a Monongahela Valley Chamber of Commerce." Those words sound familiar, right? Perhaps they were spoken or written in recent years by proponents of the time-honored theory of strength in numbers.
The Federal Railroad Administration is considering whether to create a high-speed rail line between Pittsburgh and Cleveland after pleas from two state governors.