STRASBURG, Pa. — Hobbies come in all shapes and sizes. But for the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society, their massive mobile model is a passion. “It’s fun because we try to portray the old ...

Is the old Reading Railroad Viaduct in Philly still a railroad? A new federal ruling on that question has cleared the way for Philadelphia to acquire land in the Callowhill neighborhood to expand the ...

Getting this new fuel out of the ground was one thing, but getting anthracite coal to market in Philadelphia was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals and sections of the ...

Organizers expect to complete the next step in turning the Reading Railroad Viaduct into a park in a few months, but there’s a long way to go. Organizers expect to complete the next step in turning ...

LAVELLE – When Arnie Harner was 5 years old, he got an American Flyer model railroad set for Christmas. The exhilaration the young lad felt that Christmas morning so long ago burns bright 66 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An important part of Schuylkill County railroad history is playing a role in a project under way at the Railroad Museum of ...

Zachary Kauffman wasn’t even born when the last passenger train ran between Reading and Philadelphia. But for as long as he can remember, the 20-year-old Exeter Township resident has been fascinated ...