Railroad News

As PHS seeks to spur new investments in the areas lining North Philadelphia's stretch of the Northeast Corridor, Community Contributor Brett Sturm invites us to look closer at this landscape's fascinating past - much of which is still in plain sight along the tracks.

Steamed crabs wait for hungry diners on a tray at Jeff's Got Crabs & Seafood in Springettsbury Township on Wednesday.

Firefighters investigate a crash between a car and a sport utility vehicle, in the background, at Ninth and Willow streets in Lebanon at 8:36 a.m. Thursday.

The weathered caboose, gray and green paint peeling from its sides, beckoned. Aidan, a 3-year-old visiting Bellefonte, scrambled up the steps to the rear platform and gripped the railing in delight.

Carbdondale, Lackawanna County- The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority and the Delaware Lackawanna Railroad Co., Inc., in conjunction with PennDOT District 4-0 has completed a major safety upgrade which includes the installation of new crossing lights, flashers, gates and bells at the Seventh Avenue grade crossing in Carbondale, PA.

Irwin Drive is located off West 16th Street and extends from near the southbound Interstate 79 Exit 183A from West 12th Street to below the overpass.

He was born in Williamsport, son of the late Albert R. and Winifred Goodman. He married Margaret J. Grove on June 27, 1964, at Bethany Lutheran Church, Altoona.

I am writing this letter in support of Mary Fuller for Borough Council. I have never written to the paper on a political matter before but I felt the need after receiving several attack ad mailers from the "Friends of Lansdale" PAC, representing Jeff Howard and Joe Wolf.

Tucked away in a peaceful corner of Lower Saucon Township is the Ehrhart's Mill Historic District, which straddles the Saucon Creek at the end of Old Mill Road.

Officials and residents on the Jermyn Train Station and Museum Committee will hold their inaugural meeting this month to begin planning their efforts to create a new borough landmark.

A South Bethlehem man was arrested for buying a stolen pistol from a 14-year-old boy accused of stealing three guns and ammunition from an Amplex Street home in a Monday burglary, according to court papers and Bethlehem police .

Joseph J. McKelvie, 99, of Philadelphia, a well-known conductor on the Reading Railroad for many years, died Friday, April 19, of congestive heart failure at his home in Las Vegas.

One of Kutztown's significant revenue streams has flowed for years along a series of green, super-tall utility poles along Railroad Street.

Thundering cannon fire and staccato rifle shots, mingled with the shrieks and cries of advancing and wounded soldiers, shattered the peaceful grounds of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.

Norfolk Southern Railroad will be repairing its crossing beginning Monday at 8:30 a.m. Work is expected to continue until 8 p.m. Friday.

Most Philadelphians have at least heard the name Ed Bacon. They may know him as the 92-year-old daredevil who skateboarded across Love Park to demonstrate his opposition to the legislation eventually outlawing it.

Charles T. Mahan Jr., who spent 75 years painstakingly documenting the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad - better known as the Ma & Pa - that zig-zagged across Maryland from Baltimore to York, Pa., died Friday of kidney failure at Oak Crest Village.

"Look Up!" is a PlanPhilly feature that encourages appreciation of our architectural and historical environment.

State police arrested 26-year-old Casey Marino and 27-year-old Lucas Marino after receiving a complaint from the railroad.

The Electric City was born one icy day in November 1886 when Scranton's electric trolley made its inaugural run.