To step aboard a train on the Pennsylvania meant stepping into the future. The railroad was a technological risk-taker, experimenting in 1858 with the unorthodox notion of using coal instead of ...

My first train set was from John English & Co. The three freight cars and caboose were pulled by a Pennsylvania Railroad ...

Pennsylvania ‘train in my yard’ railroad, nearly killed by Hurricane ... By the 1880s the railroads were big and powerful enough to set some standards even without government assistance.