The construction of a lot for overflow parking at the Elizabethtown train station is back on track as plans to move the old freight station on the site have been finalized.  At its Thursday work session meeting, Elizabethtown Borough council  heard an update on the planned overflo......

"CSI: NY" actor Hill Harper will be the special guest at an Amtrak event in Chicago's Union Station to celebrate train travel. Harper is best known for his role as Dr. Sheldon Hawkes in the CBS drama series but he's also a best-selling author. ......

Passengers aboard the Strasburg Rail Road were transported back in time when a posse of trouble makers rushed the cars in a mock train heist. On Sunday afternoon, a gang of "criminals" climbed into a train en route to Paradise and demanded that the passengers drop their "money" and "jewels"......

Bunny Hop ... Friday-Sunday Peter Cottontail is going to be busy this weekend! Somehow he and Santa Claus have managed to master the enviable skill of being several places at once! Beginning Friday and right through Easter he'll be hopping aboard the Bunny Train at Strasburg Rail Road. Ev......

Despite one "nay" vote, Mount Joy Borough Council passed a motion Monday to revise and advertise the borough parking ordinance. Revisions to the ordinance would regulate parking in the area around the Mount Joy Amtrak Train Station. Potential changes to the parking ordinance would......

  This is Steve Saunders' busy time of year, as the many burly, athletic types heaving iron at Saunders' Power Train facility in Manheim on recent morning attests. Saunders, an Elco High School and Millersville University grad, has become one of the country's most in-demand pers......

Thirty-five cents won't buy much today, but on March 31 it will get you into the National Toy Train Museum on its 35th anniversary. In addition to entry to the museum, which  typically costs $6 for an adult, visitors can listen to live music by Blue Light Special, from 1 until 4 p.m. Th......

An old freight train station in Elizabethtown is staying right where it is — for now. Borough council members Thursday agreed to reject a bid to build an parking lot at the Elizabethtown Train Station, which means the freight station currently situated on the property will stay. I......

During the heyday of passenger rail service, nothing surpassed Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited. Running between New York and Chicago — with Pennsylvania stops at Philadelphia, Paoli, Harrisburg, Altoona and Pittsburgh — it was the cream of the crop when it came to lux......

The Family Museum Pass program in Lancaster County is adding a little more science to its local offerings. The Lancaster Science Factory is joining the program, which already comprises six local museums and is administered by the Library System of Lancaster County, officials announced Mon......

The county-led $14.2 million renovation of Lancaster's train station is on the verge of completion, and Amtrak has announced it will take over the next phases to complete the project. Yet local officials Wednesday openly expressed worry about the follow-through of the nation's passenger rail......

Greenberg's Train and Toy Show will be rolling into the station at the Lancaster County Convention Center this weekend. Lancaster is just one stop for the show, which features a huge display of model trains, train collectibles, demonstrations, a train marketplace and even a train that car......

Children and adults can take a break from shopping at Rockvale Outlets this season to enjoy a cup of coffee or hot chocolate and watch toy trains run through a forest of decorated Christmas trees. Susan Moedinger, who has two to train-related shops, recently opened up a temporary holiday sto......

Good news for Lampeter-Strasburg area children: Santa Claus reported that boys and girls here made the "nice" list. Santa visited kids riding Santa's Paradise Express Train at the Strasburg Rail Road Saturday. He took photos with each child and handed out rainbow Slinkys and train-shaped pen......

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around Lancaster County. That means it's time for trains, trains and more model trains. The charming mini-locomotives chugging around ornately decorated tracks along miniature villages and twinkling lights are popping up everywhere for the enjoy......

A G-scale model locomotive is tested on its tracks Saturday as the Train Guys assemble the annual holiday train display at Elizabethtown Public Library, 10 S. Market St., Elizabethtown. It's an interactive display of old and new cars that allows children to be part of the action. At the push......

A 16-year-old boy was seriously injured when he was struck by a train Tuesday in East Lampeter Township, police said. Investigators said the teen suffered "extensive" injuries but was conscious and responsive before being taken by ambulance to Lancaster General Hospital. His injur......

Mount Joy residents Monday asked borough council to champion the interests of homeowners and businesses affected by the $12 million renovation of the Amtrak rail station. Resident Wendy Sweigart, 28 S. Market St., commended council, especially acting borough manager Scott Hershey, ......

Once upon a time in the village of Garden Spot, a group of young-at-heart train enthusiasts began to build a railroad.
Before long, as more and more villagers came aboard, the Garden Spot Village Train Club was born. Each year, visitors come from near and far to view the......

Many people assumed the two-year $14.2 million project to renovate the Lancaster train station would restore beauty to its crumbling 81-year-old interior. Those same people, from citizens to Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray, the county commissioners, and tourism and business officials, expressed......

Who's in charge? Where's the money coming from? What's the time frame? That's what city and county community and business leaders want to know about proposed improvements to interior public spaces at the Lancaster train station. The James Street Improvement District, Lancas......

Work on a parking lot at the Elizabethtown Train Station is moving ahead, as an old freight station will soon be moving out. Elizabethtown Borough Council members Thursday approved a $649,469 contract with Rogele Inc., of Harrisburg, to build the overflow parking lot for the station at the ......

The day before a York toy train meet expected to draw 15,000 people, lovers of little locomotives stopped by Strasburg for a National Toy Train Museum open house Wednesday.
Most visitors to the museum along Paradise Lane, next to the Red Caboose Motel, were members of the Train Coll......

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say a woman who fled with her 19-month-old son during a supervised visit has been found. Authorities said Lancaster County police spotted 34-year-old Natia Dandy and her son Kanief son sitting inside the Lancaster Train Station on Friday. She was......

The Strasburg Rail Road launched a project down the tracks in 2006 that now draws people from all over. The Wine and Cheese Train offers seating in a luxury car with a variety of cheeses and wines patrons can drink out of their own "Strasburg Rail Road" etched glasses. Employees offer ......

Help is finally coming to the Parkesburg Train Station. Local officials are hoping a new state program will make the station safer and more inviting — bringing more riders and businesses to the area. With no ticketing office, limited parking, cracked platforms and unable to meet f......

The Strasburg Rail Road locomotive rumbles into the yard an hour after sunrise. Its silhouette is black as coal. Its headlight gleams like the morning star. But it belches no steam, tows none of the shortline's famous russet-hued passenger coaches. This is a freight train, folks....

Singer Adam Levine isn't the only member of Maroon 5 with a side project. Though it doesn't have the star power of Levine's role on the hit TV show "The Voice," guitarist James Valentine has been moonlighting with other musicians. When he's not working with Maroon 5, which will pe......

Free passes to six local museums are available at the Manheim Community Library, 15 E. High St., Manheim.  Passes are available for the 1719 Hans Herr House & Museum, Willow Street; Ephrata Cloister, Ephrata; Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster; National Watch & Clock Museum......

Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene. nWe told you it was festival time, and we meant it. In addition to Saturday night's Bluegrass Pub Crawl in Marietta and Sunday's Rock the Block in the 300 bl......

A Scottish country dance will take place at the Manheim train station, 210 S. Charlotte St., at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 24. Admission $3. Call 653-1397 for more information......

Readers of a certain age may remember when they had to wind their watches. Inside was a tiny coiled spring. By winding the watch, you were storing up energy, which was then transmitted through a series of gear wheels and released gradually. Eventually, the watch stopped ticking wh......

Hop Aboard ... starts Friday Easter means different things to different people. Many attend church services Easter morning. For some folks, painting eggs is a tradition. Lots of families gather for egg hunts and ham dinners. Many exchange baskets filled with chocolatey goodness. But for s......

A little locomotive legend made a Friday morning stop in southern Lancaster County. More than 100 people were stationed in Strasburg as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania unveiled a model replica of a train that once raced an airplane and won — well, sort of. The locomotive......

  Dan Kreider started it. Kreider, the Manheim Central grad and former Pittsburgh Steelers fullback, was the first Steeler to work with Lancaster-based personal trainer Steve Saunders. Now as many as 16 Steelers work with Saunders, whose burgeoning business includes six tra......

Where can you find amaryllis, narcissus, begonias, cyclamens, lilies and hydrangeas in full bloom in January? That's easy, just head east to Longwood Gardens where winter blossoms with flowers, festivities and fireworks. As Christmas at Longwood Gardens winds down, there are still......

There's something about the holidays and trains. What kid, young, middle-aged or old, doesn't love checking out a miniature railroad, complete with houses, stores, trees and the train chugging through town? Every holiday season, a number of places bring out their model train displ......

"It's losing speed here," Craig Coble says, gesturing at the rail as an Amtrak train whizzes by. Coble leans in and crimps the joints between a few segments of track. The next time the train passes, he notes approvingly, there is no hesitation over the bumps. Keeping the trains ru......

To local historians, Elizabethtown's old freight station — a squat, ramshackle red building in a debris-filled lot off Wilson Avenue — is a diamond in the rough. To Elizabethtown Borough, it's a future parking lot. The borough wants to clear the site to make way for 82......

"Our generation, we didn't have computers. We didn't even have TVs." What they did have, Harry Black continued, was trains. A Lionel train chugging around the base of a Christmas tree may seem quaint to many today, but in the childhood of Black and his contemporaries at Garden Spo......

Harvest Days ... Saturday, Sunday The weather may not have cooperated too well during the county's fair season, but autumn's crisp temps and clear skies are a good possibility for this weekend's annual Harvest Days and Pumpkin Patch at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum. On Saturday an......

Someone derailed the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania's website.Anyone logging on to the website at www.rrmuseumpa.org starting Thursday night got the message "HACKED By Real_Karizma System Open Security No.. Kücükk......

When it rolled out of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona shops in 1914, the wooden caboose known as cabin car No. 478396 was state-of-the- art.One of the last of the four-wheel so-called "bobber cars," it boasted three bunk beds for the crewmen, ample seating both on the mai......

The renovation of the Lancaster Amtrak station is back on track.Three weeks after the $12 million project appeared in danger of derailing over cost increases, representatives of Amtrak, Lancaster County, project officials and politicians have met and talked through the issues."......

Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St....

Renovations to the Elizabethtown railroad station and platform are well under way. Now, borough officials are ready to start looking at options for using the new commercial space they've created there. "I think it's time to open the dialogue," councilman Meade Bierly said Thursday. "The......

Congressman Joe Pitts has joined Sen. Bob Casey in calling for a meeting between Amtrak and Lancaster County officials to resolve cost overruns in the Lancaster train station renovation project.Amtrak, which is providing some of the labor in the $12 million renovation, informed county offi......

Some of the fans who flocked to Nashville, Tenn., last week for the CMA Music Festival surprised singer Josh Turner by telling him they weren't aware of the devastating flood that struck the city in early May.Turner, who will perform Friday at the American Music Theatre, was shock......

The 10-year gap between albums for James Maddock can be traced to the British singer-songwriter's childhood.Nothing infuriated Maddock more than buying an artist's album, loving it and then rushing out to buy the next one -- and hating it.Maddock, who will perform a solo sho......

CONCERT REVIEWPat Monahan, lead singer for the rock band Train, unleashed an unstoppable combination of talent and charisma Thursday on the stage of American Music Theatre.From the moment the impossibly thin Monahan, dressed in black and......

Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St....

Train's fans have gotten younger as the band members have gotten older.At least that's the observation of Jim Stafford, the California-based rock band's guitarist.Train, which went on hiatus for about three years beginning in 2006, came roaring back last year with the uk......

Penn State football can be the stuff of dreams. Sometimes the dreams are modest ones. For Ryan Curran, it's not about touchdowns or quarterback sacks or NFL apprenticeships or even playing in a game in plain blue and white. "I'd be thrilled just to bust by butt in prac......

Dennis and Gary Schlossman grew up playing with model railroads. But as each brother moved out, got married and started a family, the toy trains went into boxes. And stayed there. Once their children were grown, the Schlossmans returned to their long-ago hobby — in a big way.......

Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.You know that every Thursday it's Open Mic Electric Blues night at Shank's Tavern in Marietta, right?One week it's hosted by Andre's Giants, the ne......

If you're wondering why NFL draft hopefuls flock to Steve Saunders' Power Train Sports Institute in Lancaster Township, take a look at Aaron Maybin. Look, in fact, at the before-and-after photos of Maybin on Saunders' Web site, powertrainsports.com. Maybin is a defensive rus......

This is how rumors get started. Lancaster-based strength coach and athletic trainer Steve Saunders has about 45 clients in the NFL, including 10-12 Philadelphia Eagles. In September, he opened a branch of his Power Train Sports Institute in Cherry Hill, N.J., near the homes of many Phil......

Ringo — yes, that Ringo — is coming to Lancaster County.And he's bringing his newly reconfigured All Starr Band.Ringo Starr, the singer-songwriter and onetime drummer for The Beatles, is booked to play American Music Theatre on Lincoln Highway East on July 8......

As an engine and caboose pass each other, Frank Smith works on The Train Guys' railroad display at Elizabethtown Public Library, 10 S. Market St. The holiday exhibit runs up to 20 trains at a time and features 40 push buttons visitors can operate. The display is open the following days......

Nancy Tyler of Paoli works in Lancaster and usually arrives home by train around 6 most Friday evenings.This Friday, however, Tyler wasn't expecting to be home until 8 or even 8:30 p.m.And other train passengers wound up having to take buses from Lancaster to get to their destin......

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania soon will be inviting guests on a journey to places few visitors have gone before.The museum is creating a computerized information center that will include virtual tours of unique locomotives and rail cars not open to the general public.Pieces of......

Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St....

Visitors to any of Lancaster County's public libraries can now check out a firsthand trip into history.Ephrata Cloister is the most recent member of Library System of Lancaster County's popular Family Museum Pass Program. Checking out the Cloister's pass at the library means fr......

Locomotives thunder past English boxwoods and a Japanese red maple in the Manheim Township backyard of Mark and Mary Beth Oles. The trains whistle and smoke as they haul passenger and freight cars around a towering oak. And the couple doesn't mind. In fact they — and lots o......

A last-minute need for temporary toilets, showers and lockers at the Lancaster city Amtrak station is stalling the start of a $12 million renovation there. The work, which was to begin in late August, is being delayed while the project's manager searches for a way to provide interim facilit......

It sounded like such a good idea at the time. Linn Moedinger, president and chief mechanical officer of the Strasburg Rail Road, wanted all the supervisors on staff to come up with an idea for a special event the railroad could host this season. Being a diverse staff, of course, everyon......

Twice in his life, Franklin Shearer has fallen in love.First, he fell for trains.Then he fell for his wife, Lucille.The retired Hersheypark executive combines both passions by riding the rails with her, always using Amtrak's Elizabethtown station.Shearer feels so s......

This isn't a good year to ask the state Legislature for $13 million.And that, John Ward, president of Modern Transit Partnerships, said recently, is a major reason why the Capital Red Rose Corridor is still in transportation limbo."Obviously, with the state of the budget si......

Correction — The article below regarding the start of Elizabethtown train station renovations, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday, contained incorrect information. The reason given by local officials for a delay in the start of work was erron......

The Strasburg Rail Road is going green and expanding its freight operation at the same time. No, the tourist line won't be burning soybean-based biofuel in its coal-fired steam locomotives. But it's expecting to handle a tank car of the stuff sometime this week. The Norfolk So......

Kristi Largoza had planned to go into farming. These days, though, besides fields of corn, she oversees forests and fountains. Rivers. Highways. Baseball parks and suburbs, indeed, an entire snow-frosted mountain range. It's all inside Strasburg's Choo Choo Barn, the mo......

People in or near Mount Joy "are telling us they want this," Mark Hiester said, glancing around at the now-quiet spot down below the heart of his town. But that spot, Mount Joy's train station, isn't quiet very often. Dozens of trains come and go each week, most of them c......

The days of Conrail will come alive again this weekend at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg.The museum, in conjunction with the Conrail Historical Society, will feature the equipment, history, spirit and people of Conrail, which ended its run 10 years ago."Visito......

For nearly 80 years, the only visible reminder of Lancaster's downtown train station has been a line of yellow-painted stone pillars along the first block of East Chestnut Street. Those stones were once the base of iron columns that supported the Pennsylvania Railroad station's train shed that ......

The economic downturn has brought unexpected benefits to Elizabethtown Borough.An ambitious improvement project that would create a second downtown around the borough's deteriorating train station is in line for an $8 million boost from Washington, D.C.The federal plan to stimul......

Big-time football teams have elaborate facilities and huge staffs, presumably dedicated to doing whatever it takes to make players better. So why do big-time football players need personal trainers? "They all come from a team background where whether you're a punter or a linebacke......

So there was a handful of Penn State football players working out at the Power Train gym on Millersville Pike Thursday, and here comes this guy pulling a sled. A sled with a stack of weight plates on board, maybe a half-dozen, all weighing 45 pounds or more. A trainer hops on the sled. Add......

Need a little holiday cheer? Take a break from shopping and gift-wrapping, grab a group of friends and hit the town.
DOWNTOWN LANCASTER FOR THE HOLIDAYS
For holiday fun, look no further than downtown Lancaster, where each weekend, the city offers a variety of activi......

A New Holland man is "fortunate to be alive," police say, after his small pickup truck collided with a freight train late Tuesday night in the borough. Rescuers freed Dr. Robert W. Berstecher, 57, from his mangled Chevrolet S-10. He was listed in fair condition today at Lancaster Gene......

One day in 1942, Rio Grande Southern locomotive No. 20 careened off the tracks in a mountain pass and pinched its boiler against a rock. Now, 66 years later, the Strasburg Rail Road mechanical shop is bolting and hammering the little coal burner back together again. In about three years, i......

Phillip Brown slowed the locomotive to a lazy chug as the train rounded the turn near the tiny village church.He carefully maneuvered the cars past the post office and general store, letting them pick up speed as the train crossed the bridge heading into the east side of town."......

A Norfolk-Southern freight train struck and demolished a sport-utility vehicle that was left stranded on railroad tracks north of Bainbridge late Wednesday night. Occupants of the Chevrolet Tahoe apparently fled after the vehicle became stuck on railroad tracks near Prescott Road in Conoy Towns......

A freight train struck a sport utility vehicle driving on train tracks in Conoy Township late Wednesday. The Chevy Blazer was demolished, and its occupants apparently fled the scene, Bainbridge Assistant Fire Chief Dave Willenbecher said.The incident happened about 10 p.m. just north of Ba......

A 32-year-old man has been charged with firing a shotgun in southern York County July 21 at a train carrying Lancaster County residents.Robert Bentley Gracey, 10662 Guinston Road, Felton, allegedly shot three rounds from a shotgun in the area of Muddy Forks at 6:30 p.m. July 21, according ......

At 9 a.m. Friday morning, Don Davis had the door to his little wooden booth propped open so the air could circulate as he counted the morning take. Business is always brisk here at the Lancaster Amtrak station's long-term parking lot, but Fridays are a little mellower, said Davis, who works......

A Smoketown man who was thrown off his motorcycle against the side of a moving train engine Thursday night remained in critical condition Friday night, a Lancaster General Hospital spokesman said.Robert Zimmerman, 38, of 2469 Old Philadelphia Pike, was injured at a railroad crossing on Dil......

A motorcyclist was injured Thursday night when he collided with a freight locomotive at a railroad crossing in New Holland, police said.According to Officer Mark Willwerth, New Holland police, Robert Zimmerman, of Smoketown, who was celebrating his 38th birthday, was heading south on Dille......

More than a decade after planning began, renovations to Lancaster's Amtrak station are finally on track. Additional parking, shops, a separate area for Trailways bus passengers and a station driveway realigned with North Duke Street are planned. Funding for the $12 million project w......

I'll admit it: I have mixed feelings about Kate Voegele. Her first and only album, "Don't Look Away," was released in May 2007 and re-released in January on MySpace Records, in addition to a special iTunes exclusive release in May. A PR company press release describes Voe......

The age of steam locomotives is just a memory to older Americans, while their children don't recall it at all.But now, visitors to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg can see the golden years of railroading through the eyes of a well-known railroad artist."Railroad......

(AP)Doug Green had always planned to set up the old Lionel train again. But more than 30 years of good intentions ended recently, when the Millcreek Township man walked into Train City with boxes full of engines, cars and track. Green, who left the shop $150 richer, showed up just in time....

In life and in death, artist Ted Rose was rather a private man. Although his passion was painting specific landscapes — mainly the industrial landscape of depots, trains and grain elevators, but also the Southwestern desert beauty that he called home — Rose was never pigeon-hole......

Manheim Township police have announced several road closures near Lancaster Train Station in conjunction with today's visit by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.McGovern Avenue will be closed between North Duke and North Queen streets starting at 1 p.m. The closure wi......

Sen. Barack Obama is coming back to Lancaster. But this time, instead of a bus, he's ridin' a train.Obama's campaign released details Thursday of a Saturday train trip the Illinois senator will make starting in Wynnewood and ending with a rally at the state Capitol in Harrisbur......

Work on the final phase of the multi-year project to restore the Manheim Railroad Station to its 1881 exterior appearance began earlier this month. The building, at 210 S. Charlotte St., serves as the headquarters of the Manheim Historical Society. The project to restore the station began in 20......

People driving through rural Lancaster County expect to see rolling fields, silos, cows, horses.Chances are they're not expecting a county farm to be home to an 83-foot-long, 208,000-pound rail car.However, if you drive along Parkview Heights Road in Ephrata Township, that's......

With new plans in hand for renovations to its railroad station and platforms, Elizabethtown Borough needs only two more things.One is a stack of approvals from state and federal agencies that have oversight on the project.The other is about $4 million.Borough manager Pete Whi......

"When I was a kid on Christmas morning, I'd see the depressing assortment of gifts the adults got — shirts, socks, ties," said Strasburg Rail Road President Linn Moedinger. "And I'd think, if that's what it's like to grow up, I don't want to." ......

It started out with a few empty boxes, decorated brightly for Christmas and stacked on an antique baggage cart in a Lancaster train station corner. Then, Donna Carlson decided to add green garlands and red poinsettias at the windows of the Amtrak station, 53 McGovern Ave. And a tall evergr......

It was known as "the East Yard," or Manor Yard, and was one of Columbia's two rail centers at a time when railroad was king. Through the holiday season, a small version of "the Columbia of yesterday" is yours to see. In Ephrata, the year is 1953, and you can see a whole ......

When the Strasburg 275th Anniversary Committee began planning its New Year's Eve celebration, some thought dropping a train might be fitting — but completely impractical.True, the area is known for attractions like the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania and the National Toy Train Mu......

Christmas and model trains go together like mistletoe and smooches. This year, the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg is kissing up to yuletide train enthusiasts big-time, showing "The Polar Express" at its IMAX theater and offering a collection of eight new model-train gardens in its Hars......

Santa's Paradise Express is about to pull out of the station.The popular holiday train ride features Christmas carolers, brass horns and a personal visit with Santa during its 45-minute journey through the Amish countryside.Festivities will begin as soon as the visitor reaches t......

The glass is broken in many of the windows that aren't already boarded up.Wooden door frames at the Elizabethtown train station are warped under peeling paint, and the concrete steps leading to the railroad platform are cracked and broken.Yet the deeply rutted mud-and-gravel par......

Most of you don't know this, but I am writing a new book.Like "Biggest Brother," my biography of Maj. Richard Winters of "Band Of Brothers" fame, this is set in World War II. It's about a group of soldiers called the 6th U.S. Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, or the Alamo Scouts, an elite ......

The sign at a vendor's table at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania read "Stop, Look, Listen." And that's exactly what enthusiasts do at model railroad shows."I can't explain it; there's something magical about it," John V. Luppino, operations manager of......

Ryan Kunkle, supervisor of visitor services at the Railroad Museum of Pa., can remember lying in bed as a little boy as the not-too distant echoes of train whistles lulled him to sleep. "The trains got in my mind and they never let up," he says. He's not alone. An est......

At the turn of the 20th century, the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad, the "standard of the world," linked all the great cities of America's East and Midwest except one: New York. Gotham-bound passengers in the Pennsy's fleet of plush Pullman cars disembarked not in the heart o......

Sen. Arlen Specter is doing his best to keep plans for the CorridorOne commuter rail line alive. Appearing at a press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's senior senator said he is working to arrange for $11.2 million for the rail line from Lancaster to Harrisburg. The show of s......

World dance with Zita Angelo can be as simple or as much of a challenge as you can accept.For the beginner, the first dances on a Thursday evening at Mulberry Art Studios are slow; the music is flowing; and the steps are simple.Dancers hold hands as they grapevine to the right four ......

While the rest of Lancaster County celebrated the Fourth of July with fireworks and picnics, Strasburg Railroad engineer Steve Weaver was getting ready for a moment he had been anticipating for nearly a year: flipping the main electrical switch in the newly refurbished Reading Car No. 10.&......

Two area transportation projects are listed for major funding, but a few more hurdles must be cleared before the money rolls in.On Friday, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter announced $11.2 million has been earmarked for final design and construction of the Corridor One project, a proposed commuter r......

If you want to feel like a kid again, take your children to the National Toy Train Museum. Featuring five interactive, operating train layouts and housed in a building modeled after a Victorian-era train station, the museum brings the hobby of toy-train collecting to life. The museum, loca......

A decade after it was first proposed, renovation of Lancaster City's Amtrak station may be coming around the bend. Station improvements, expected to cost more than $12 million, are on track to go to bid by the end of this year. Construction could start in the spring. Under that schedule, A......

Patrick Riley has learned a thing or two after 12 years of taking the train from Lancaster to Philadelphia. The most important lesson? Have someone drop him off at the city's Amtrak station in the morning. Riley, of Manheim Township, said he's almost guaranteed to have a hard ......

A Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in Rapho Township early Thursday, causing delays for other trains using the rail line through the morning rush hour.Four empty rail cars overturned after the engine derailed on Amtrak's Keystone Quarter line at 1:10 a.m., investigators said.......

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg will use a federal grant to protect an important part of America's railroading past.A $42,912 Conservation Project Support grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services will help the museum create new photographic image......

A Norfolk Southern freight train struck a tractor-trailer at the Dart Container property in Leola on Friday night, and the impact sliced the trailer section in half, East Lampeter Township police said. No injuries were reported from the 6:22 crash, but it took about two hours for crews to pick ......

A tractor-trailer collided with a train Friday night at Dart Container in Upper Leacock Township, fire officials said.Upper Leacock Fire Company Chief Nelson Dagen said the tractor-trailer was crossing railroad tracks that run through Dart Container property, located along Route 23, when i......

The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad will visit The Old Line Museum in Delta, York County, on Sunday afternoons throughout June, presenting photos, memorabilia and drawings.This will be the 32nd consecutive year the museum has honored the M&P Railroad — affectionately called th......

Strasburg Rail Road president Linn Moedinger told a crowd of about 200 people on Wednesday that the railroad, "never did anything in a normal fashion." In a re-creation of a whistle stop tour of political campaigns gone by, Moedinger spoke from the back of an observation car after it ......

Bill Grager has been working as a conductor on the Strasburg Rail Road for a third of a century. Grager, now an assistant principal of Lampeter-Strasburg High School, also served as music conductor at the district's Martin Meylin Middle School for more than 20 years. In 1986, his du......

Some Landis Homes residents are sharing their passion for model railroading by operating a garden railroad in one of the courtyards on the retirement community's campus near Lititz. Luke Bomberger, a member of the Landis Homes courtyard railroad club, said he and other model railroad en......

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has a new look.The museum officially dedicated its $1.4 million face-lift during a ceremony Friday.About 100 people, including some in Victorian garb, 1940s fashions and railroad conductor and train personnel outfits, crammed into the lobby for th......

The second edition of a book about a local narrow-gauge rail line, out of print for more than two decades, has been published by the Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg. "Little, Old & Slow: The Life and Trials of the Peach Bottom and Lancaster, Oxford & Southern......

The 45th Long's Park Summer Entertainment Series is gearing up to bring live music to local audiences beginning the first Sunday in June and running for 13 weeks.The series offers a multitude of musical styles, from Creole to classic rock. The Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation wi......

Authorities hope they will be able to identify today a man killed by a train Wednesday night in East Lampeter Township and notify his family. The man has only been described as a white male in his 40s. Sometime Wednesday night, the man was struck by an Amtrak passenger train near the 2200 ......

A man walking on railroad tracks was struck and killed by a passenger train overnight Wednesday in East Lampeter Township, investigators said.They described the victim as a white man in his 40s.As of Thursday night, East Lampeter Township police had not released his name.The ......

10 Years AgoThursday's Record Express April 3, 1997
• Model Community — Is Lititz a model community? The Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs believes so. Last month, a crew of professors and research assistants from Penn State ......

A railroad experience aimed at adults will head down the Strasburg Rail Road tracks at full speed beginning April 7. The wine and cheese train is returning, after a successful experiment last summer. People purchased tickets for last year's train faster than anticipated, recalled manag......

Now arriving on eastbound track No. 2, Train 48, the Broadway Limited, making stops at Coatesville, Downingtown, Paoli, 30th Street Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark and New York. All aboard!" How many times in the early years of my life did I hear those familiar words? Particular train nam......

A federal agency has rejected a $2.4 million Amtrak railroad station proposed for Paradise Township because of concerns the site would limit access for people with disabilities.Officials have hired an engineering firm to consider alternative sites in the township for the long-awaited stati......

A 26-year-old Denver man escaped injury Monday afternoon when his car was struck by a train in West Cocalico Township, police said.David Yang was driving a Subaru Forester about 4:35 p.m. when he failed to notice a railroad crossing on Creamery Road, East Cocalico Township police Officer M......

A Norfolk Southern freight train struck a tractor-trailer Monday morning after the rig stalled on railroad tracks in Columbia Borough, investigators said.The driver of the tractor-trailer exited the rig before the train collided with it about 8:15 a.m., slicing the trailer in half, investi......

It's the little engine that could.

Weighing in at just 12 tons, the small Vulcan switch engine, a new addition to Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania's collection, and its half-dozen or so siblings, were once the workhorses of some of the nation's largest rail yards.

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Starting Oct. 30, Amtrak will add three roundtrips weekdays between Philadelphia and Harrisburg to the nine currently offered. Amtrak also will add one roundtrip on Saturdays and one on Sundays. Each of the extra trains will stop in Lancaster. The improved service will include trains reachi......

The Christmas shop along Route 272 south of Willow Street looked different than the one the 60-somethings had visited for decades. The couple missed their annual fall pilgrimage last year, so they didn’t know a fire destroyed the landmark store on Aug. 11, 2004. Frey’s Gary Burger has seen the......

The Ephrata-based group of model train enthusiasts invites everyone to its 14th annual Great Train Show from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday and again Dec. 26. Visitors can enjoy the club’s historic depiction of the heyday of railroading in eastern Pennsylvania, including the shipment of anthracite coal and l......