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Monday, March 31, 2025

This week's Hagley Vault post documents a train wreck that occurred in February 1917 ...

Monday, March 3, 2025

This image of a worker at the Pennsylvania Railroad's car shops ...

Monday, March 11, 2024

This image of a woman working in the Pennsylvania Railroad's tin shop was scanned from a negative created 105 years ago this week ...

Monday, February 5, 2024

We're looking at a week of sunshine and relatively warm winter weather today ...

Monday, November 13, 2023

The New York and Harlem, the world's first street-railroad, began rolling this week in ...

Monday, April 24, 2023

This coming Friday is Workers Memorial Day ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Here's a special sneak peek ....

Friday, October 7, 2022

America's first intentionally constructed roller coaster opened on June 16, 1884 ...

Thursday, August 25, 2022

This photograph shows the Adele Post Office in Manoa, Pennsylvania ...

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Pulling into the station this #TrainTuesday - it's the Lehigh Valley Railroad's 'Delaware', Engine #5 ...

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

This #WorkerWednesday photo shows workers in ....

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday visitor is ....

Friday, May 6, 2022

It may be a rainy day out there today ....

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

#OTD in 1831, the Allegheny Portage Railroad began work on the the first railroad tunnel ...

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Who knew that #TrainTuesday could be so glamorous?

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

This photograph from ca. 1900 looks west along the Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Company's West Chester Pike ...

Thursday, February 3, 2022

This ca.1900 photograph looks west along West Chester Pike in Millbourne borough ...

Monday, November 1, 2021

The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge went into service on this date ...

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

We've chosen this 1963 negative for today's #TrainTuesday post ....

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Rolling stock, coming through ....

Monday, August 16, 2021

On this date in 1898 ...

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Here's a photograph that's absolutely ....

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

We turn our attention to accident prevention today ...

Monday, March 1, 2021

Today's train wreck of a post features photographs taken on this...

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Oh, those Florida trains. February has gotten off to a snowy...

Monday, February 1, 2021

We're looking at a winter wonderland at Hagley Library. Or we...

Monday, January 4, 2021

As a little celebration of the new year, here's engine #2021,...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

As we wait to find out whether today's snow storm will be a...

Tuesday, November 17, 2020