The railroad was a technological risk-taker, experimenting in 1858 with the unorthodox notion of using coal instead of wood for locomotive fuel. A year later, the Pennsylvania replaced the candles ...

The first T1s burned coal. No. 5550 will run on oil ... talked about the technical differences, "If the [Pennsylvania Railroad] is building steam locomotives today, this is how they'd do it.

Portions of east central, northeast, and southeast Pennsylvania ... era than the steam locomotive," said Nathaniel Guest, executive director of the Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust.

by the use of wood for locomotive fuel, we long ago (when no other kind was used) repeatedly directed attention to the substitution of coal for wood on our railroads Stubborn at one period in ...

POTTSVILLE, Penn., Dec. 23.--A fatal accident, horrible in its completeness, occurred on the Schuykill Valley Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, a few miles from this place ...

On Dec. 31, 2024, Rice operated a steam locomotive for the last time on his final day at the railroad ... a laborer responsible for keeping the coal fire burning in a steam engine to heat water ...

(WHTM) — Finding a woman working on a railroad is difficult enough in an ... hired Jennifer Krieg — a steam and diesel locomotive engineer — to be their superintendent of operations.

The Schuylkill County-based line is reviving its Iron Horse Rambles, locomotive-driven excursions ... Maroon and Tuscan color scheme of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the cars had been part of the ...

A locomotive pulls freight cars near the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad headquarters ... growth in northeastern Pennsylvania, where it services coal, petrochemical and consumer ...