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The Great American Train Show is the name of what was, for two decades, the largest traveling model train show in the United States. The company was incorporated in 1985 and went defunct in 2006. During the 1990s, the company operated as many as 90 train shows every year in 40 different states.
PA Routes 66 and 136 begin in Greensburg. PA Routes 130, 819, and U.S. Route 119 pass through the city. U.S. Route 22, a major connector from Central to Southwestern Pennsylvania, runs approximately seven miles north of the city through Salem Township, accessible by routes 66, 819, and 119.
Roadside America was an indoor miniature village and railway covering 8,000 square feet (740 m 2).Created by Laurence Gieringer in 1935, it was first displayed to the public in his Hamburg, Pennsylvania, home.
Ehalt Street was named for Jacob Ehalt (1821–1885), [4] a German immigrant who owned a hotel on Harrison Avenue. Train Station (1911) Greensburg Train Station (101 Ehalt Street, at the corner of Harrison Avenue) was designed by architect William Cookman for the Pennsylvania Railroad in a style that has been described as Jacobean Revival. [5]
Monroeville is home to the Monroeville Mall as well as several office parks, [12] and since the 1960s has featured high rise hotels. [13] The Monroeville Convention Center, formerly known as the ExpoMart, is located near the mall. [14] At its height in 1979, U.S. Steel's research laboratory in Monroeville employed nearly 1,800 people. [15]
Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars ...
I’m putting in 30 hours a week here,” Steve Scagnelli, president of the Train Masters of Babylon, told The Post. The club has spent 16 months crafting a 6,500-square-foot display. Stephen Yang
Latest by 1968, only the section between College Hill, Beaver Falls, Aliquippa and P&LE's Pittsburgh Terminal was served by one single roundtrip commuter train per day. [6] [7] In 1978, P&LE tried to drop that last commuter train, which was met by fierce objections. With state support, P&LE continued to operate the commuter run but eventually ...