In the early morning hours of July 8, 1921, engineer and businessman William Francis Bohlman was at the throttle of Southern Pacific’s Engine No. 745...
In the 19th Century, railroad travel could be a traumatic experience. Traveling on combustible wooden coaches heated by stoves and lit by oil lamps at...
If you’re a fan of The X Files, you’ve seen Grouse Mountain–possibly without knowing it. In ‘Ascension’ (Season 2 Episode 6), Dana Scully is kidnapped...
On the outskirts of Pittsburgh, near where Piney Fork empties into Peters Creek, there’s an old neglected railroad tunnel covered in graffiti and filled with...
“Nobody liked the ornament, people kept telling me to get rid of it. If I had done (that) she might have got out of the...