Five steam locomotives, destined for preservation at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, are the focus of a $50,000 matching fund challenge. The museum is running a $250,000 Ready for the Roundhouse ...
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has met a $50,000 matching grant challenge by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, with funds designated for the preservation of five historic ...
After years of outdoor deterioration, six steam locomotives will finally have protection from the elements in a new facility. Construction is expected to begin on the building this month at the ...
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has started construction of a six-stall roundhouse for the display of its historic Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotives. Patrick Morrison, director, Railroad ...
THE DETAILS ON THIS. BAILEY. YEAH, GUYS, IT’S BEEN SINCE 2002 THAT THEY’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS PROJECT. AND NOW, 20 YEARS LATER, IT IS FINALLY COMING TO FRUITION. THE RAILROAD MUSEUM OF ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in production ...
The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...
Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Railroaders Memorial Museum volunteer Mike Reindl uses a magnetic drill press on a sheet of metal for the outer fire box of the K4. Visitors will soon see signs of ...
The Newtown Square Pennsylvania Railroad Museum Association has designated Saturday, Oct. 6, as Newtown Square Railroad Day (rain date Oct. 13) with the opening ceremony at 9:30 a.m. at the Museum’s ...