Tag: Pennsylvania Railroad

Famous Pennsylvania Locomotive #1361 On Display At The Horseshoe Curve In Altoona. A Nazi plot to blow up a Pennsylvania railroad and a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia, among other targets, failed thanks to one of the eight saboteurs.

FBI Raids and Cold Feet: Inside the Disrupted 1942 Nazi Plot to Blow up Pennsylvania Railroad's Horseshoe Curve

March 19, 2024

A Nazi plot to blow up a Pennsylvania Railroad, namely Altoona’s famous “Horseshoe Curve,” and a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia, among other targets…

Transportation

Rare Steel Heavyweight Train Car That Became Part of ‘Paoli Local’ Restaurant to be Restored

May 11, 2023

A rare anthracite-region steel heavyweight office Lehigh & New England Railroad train car that was part of the ‘Paoli Local’ restaurant in Strafford for…

Education

It’s Radnor’s First Trolley Tour of History

June 3, 2019

Lucky residents were transported back in time May 19 aboard a trolley historical tour of Radnor Township, writes Linda Stein for mainlinemedianews.com.

Historian Greg…

Commerce

Construction at Swarthmore’s Crum Creek Viaduct Receives National Attention

March 25, 2016

A feature story in the Construction Equipment Guide, the national publication of the construction industry, recently highlighted the work of SEPTA’s Crum Creek Viaduct…