The anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, ...

Getting this new fuel out of the ground was one thing, but getting anthracite coal to market in Philadelphia was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals and sections of the ...

Class II Reading & Northern, Railway Age’s four-time Regional of the Year recipient, has made a few changes in its corporate leadership structure “to better deal with the unprecedented growth in its ...

Rachel Leon rides the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which aided in the region's industrialization in the 19th and ...

POTTSVILLE – When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it ...

Each January, Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...

When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it was capable ...

Getting anthracite coal out of the ground was one thing, but getting this new fuel to market in Philadelphia in its early days was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals ...