A recent gift of a stash of old model trains provided a true N scale nostalgia trip. It’s hard to believe that N scale has ...

SEPTA was teetering when Scott Sauer became the permanent general manager last June. He seemed made for the moment: A homegrown Philly guy, started as a trolley operator in 1990 and worked his way up.

Motorists who take Hanover Avenue between Allentown and Bethlehem with any frequency may be aware of a small, handsome, red brick Georgian Revival style building that looks like nothing so much as a ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians. The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and numerous ...