Bryan Schlake News Today

Until recently, Penn State Altoona’s Rail Transportation Engineering students have had to go to Curry Rail Services in Hollidaysburg for “lab” classes to work on a non-operational diesel locomotive donated by Norfolk Southern and stored at Curry. Now those students need only walk from their regular classrooms downtown across the pedestrian bridge to the roundhouse […]

There are 389 documented ways that a train can derail—and no amount of maneuvering will reduce those numbers to zero.