For decades, one person, albeit working in shifts with others like him or her, sat in an 8-by-6 box hoisted in the air by steel supports and flipped levers to lower the gates whenever SEPTA’s R5 train ...
The history of Monroe County’s rail lines began more than 150 years ago. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad established tracks on the east side of the Brodhead Creek, and the first train to ...
Rail towers were narrow buildings, two stories tall and always next to the railroad tracks. Workers switched tracks, handed out train orders and performed other duties for the railroad. Slowly, as the ...