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Union County Historical Society releases second railroad book
LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society has released a book called "Railroads and Railroaders: North and South – The History of Lines That Operated in Central Pennsylvania." ...
Baltimore’s Ma and Pa Railroad may be gone, it remains forever on time
Today people who were not alive when its smoke-spewing coal-fired trains passed through Remington, Wyman Park, Roland Park, ...
WGAL on MSN4d
Some people with unclaimed property in Pa. are getting checks in the mail
Go inside the vault where Pennsylvania keeps unclaimed property. Pennsylvania Money Match is a new program that allows the ...
Penn State Altoona7d
Penn State Altoona history students honor World War II Altoona railroader
ALTOONA, Pa. — Penn State Altoona history students Will Auman, Jacob Dicks, Emma Moniz and Cinnsire Warner recently assisted ...
NYC will eventually have to abandon part of its water supply if it keeps getting saltier
Decades of road salt use is taking a toll on New York City’s water reservoirs. City officials say salinity levels tripled in ...
Republican Herald18d
Pennsylvania Railroad served Schuylkill for 80 years
The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune19d
Taylor, DEP to use grant funding to remove fire-damaged, century-old mine building
Taylor and the state Department of Environmental Protection plan to use $265,000-plus in federal funding to tear down a century-old, fire-damaged building at the former Taylor Colliery. The Taylor ...
Daily Mail21d
Kanye West's $1.5M abandoned church building in LA burns to the ground
Kanye West's hopes of expanding his church offerings in Los Angeles seem to have taken a hit after a building he purchased in 2023 burned to the ground. In January 2023, West purchased a single ...
Associated Press22d
3 victims of Pennsylvania plane crash were taken to a burn unit for treatment, hospital says
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking lot of a ...
Philadelphia Inquirer23d
Pa. will expand its innovative ‘Little Scandinavia’ unit in SCI Chester to three more state prisons
A pilot initiative in Chester’s state prison modeled after the jail system in Scandinavian countries will be expanded to three other state prisons, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections announced ...
The Conversation25d
Knocking down abandoned buildings has a lot of benefits for Detroit − but it’s costly for cities
Mark Skidmore receives funding from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Camila Alvayay-Torrejon receives funding from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Dusan Paredes Araya receives funding from ...
The Tuscaloosa News25d
ALDOT to remove abandoned railroad bridge on U.S. Highway 11
Construction to remove an abandoned railroad bridge on U.S. Highway 11 in Tuscaloosa County will begin this month. The project is expected to be completed in late 2025. Lane closures will occur ...