Do you ever wonder how trains move on a busy line like the New Haven division of Metro-North? How do they switch from track to track, make their scheduled stops and try to stay on schedule? It’s all ...

A dilapidated building alongside I-93 that was once responsible for controlling several railroad tracks throughout Concord during the mid-1900s was given a reprieve from demolition. Though the roof is ...

ATTLEBORO - The leaders of a seven-year effort to save an aging railroad switch tower are hoping to lift it out of limbo soon. A bold new plan that involves using a crane to hoist the two-story, ...

ATTLEBORO - It's said that no good deed goes unpunished, and that's clearly true for the Attleboro Redevelopment Authority, which has found itself in a nightmarish bureaucratic tangle that could stop ...

LIMA — On a pleasant early Sunday evening in June 1905, Lima residents lined the tracks and crowded the platform of the Pennsylvania Railroad station waiting for a passenger train that wasn’t going to ...

The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society now owns the Harris Switch Tower near downtown Harrisburg, Pa. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the tower was built ...

Rail towers were narrow buildings, two stories tall and always next to the railroad tracks. Workers switched tracks, handed out train orders and performed other duties for the railroad. Slowly, as the ...

Some artifacts of the past are preserved through lots of effort and special funding, holding places of honor in their communities, which call attention to them, like Altoona does to the former ...

The Harrisburg Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society now owns the Harris Switch Tower near downtown Harrisburg. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the tower was built in ...