As the Pennsylvania Railroad embarked on its ambitious electrification project in the 1930s, it continued to develop and test new locomotive designs. The goal was to produce a new electric locomotive capable of pulling heavy passenger trains at speeds of up to 100 mph. The......
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This month’s pop-up display, in Rolling Stock, Hall, of interesting Museum collections centers around vacation destinations and the railroad souvenirs passengers would bring home with them. One traveling essential: a men’s toilet kit. Souvenirs from the Switchback Railroad in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Pennsylvania......
In honor of the new U. S. Postal Service stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad, the spotlight on collections this month is on the Railway Postal Service. You’ll find a pop-up display in at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s Rolling Stock Hall,......
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania will join museums nationwide again this summer in the tenth annual Blue Star Museums program, which provides free admission to our nation’s active duty personnel and their families. The 2019 program will begin earlier than in past years, launching on......
April in the United States marks the opening of baseball season, for both major and minor league teams. So what, you may ask, does baseball have to do with railroading? Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many railroads formed athletic associations for their......
Here’s the latest from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania library and archives! Since November 2018, roughly 17,500 watermarked thumbnail images have been uploaded to their corresponding entries on our archival search engine. This brings the total images now visible online to about 120,000, less than......
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce William “Bill” Cole as volunteer of the year for 2019. Bill was selected by the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania’s board of directors from among the Museum’s corps of more than 150 active volunteers......
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania recently bid a fond farewell to our historic Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive No. 757, the Berkshire. The enormous 75-year-old engine is now under the ownership of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. No. 757 was......
About 65 years ago, on Thursday, March 18, 1954, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., there was an “extra special baked ham supper” at the Lancaster Station. The Pennsylvania Railroad Women’s Aid Society would often hold fundraiser dinners like this one to fulfill their charitable mission......
Soon, the Solari board, Amtrak’s split-flip arrivals and departures board from William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, will be on exhibit at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. It’s in storage now, while we build a base on which to safely display it.......