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By JOSH FUNK Associated Press Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for a fiery February 2023 train der...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s student actors will perform a piece of their own creation April 4 to 7. Students will perform “Berlin Walls...

Lawmakers must help first responders by passing legislation addressing train transport of hazardous materials On Feb. 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern trai...

Gov. Josh Shapiro thinks mass transit is too big to fail. In his recent budget address, Shapiro pitched sending roughly $300 million every year from P...

The National Transportation Safety Board’s investigation of the February 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment at East Palestine, Ohio, near that sta...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroads announced after last year’s fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio, haven’t yet made a major difference, statist...

The Bradford Era and Sally Costik of the Bradford Landmark Society are pleased to present a new series of articles on local history called “Happenings...

Norfolk Southern’s fourth-quarter profit fell 33% because of the ever growing costs of the cleanup of last year’s fiery derailment in eastern Ohio, bu...

Tom Huntoon captured this shot of a (long) train on the tracks, rounding the snowy “Droney Curve” in the Lewis Run and Gifford area.

Commuters may want high-speed rail — but at what price? Apparently $3 billion. That’s what the U.S. Department of Transportation committed this month ...

It's beginning to look a lot like a hectic holiday travel season, but it might go relatively smoothly if the weather cooperates. Travel over Christmas...

Members of the Allentown, N.Y., Volunteer Fire Department came to Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department to pick up Engine 151 on Saturday mornin...

Discussions about a rail siding at the landfill in Sergeant Township have been ongoing for years. And now it’s closer to reality, explained Jeff Weld,...

The delayed and over-budget Hudson River tunnel project in New York and New Jersey received yet another $3.8 billion from U.S. taxpayers, Sen. Chuck S...

EMPORIUM — Applications are being accepted until Jan. 20 for the 9th round of the Sinnemahoning watershed grant program. Settlement monies from the Ju...

Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, or Metro, has received $2.4 billion in federal aid since the beginning of the pandemic but its ...

RAIL: Here’s an interesting tale of the railroad from The Era back in 1901. It is stated upon good authority that the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. contem...

CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced B&P Railroad will close Route 46, North Kendall Avenue, in the City of ...

United States Steel Corp. unveiled a battery-powered locomotive on Monday as part of its ongoing effort to clean up operations in the Mon Valley. The ...

HARRISBURG — Attorney General Michelle Henry leads a coalition of 13 attorneys general in supporting a federal rule proposal that would mandate railro...