Q: I need help identifying a specific Pennsylvania RR steam engine. The number on the cab was 1299. What class was this locomotive? I have a picture of me as a boy looking out the fireman's window and ...

Explore an overview of Steamtown USA and its journey from one man’s vision to a national historic site in Scranton ...

six-stall roundhouse at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. Designed to provide essential storage and protection for historic steam locomotives, the new facility aims to enhance ...

Woodstown Central steam locomotive No. 9 is temporarily out of service. It will be replaced in excursion service by an ...

Steam billows across the Appalachian hillsides as a narrow-gauge locomotive winds through the Pennsylvania countryside, its ...

In 1853 when Carnegie joined the Pennsylvania Railroad ... safety was a more basic concern. Locomotives were safe enough if the boiler steam remained at moderate levels, but if stoked too high ...