On Oct. 22, 1952, a passenger train pulled into the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad station in Pottsville with President Harry S. Truman aboard. Truman’s was a rare visit of a sitting U.S. president ...

New Yorkers have greeted U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement last week of a federal takeover of the Pennsylvania Station improvement project with weary skepticism. That skepticism ...

Pennsylvania Station, in west midtown, is the busiest railroad station in the Western Hemisphere. It is also a shabby, haunted labyrinth. I was there recently with Vishaan Chakrabarti, an architect ...

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