In October 1959, 65 years ago, the Pottsville Republican published a week-long series in observance of the paper’s 75th anniversary. Individual copies of the papers are not easy to come by. And copies ...

At 12:05 one morning last week, blustery, bogtrotting Mike Quill, boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, walked up to union pickets outside Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Got to get ...

Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that ...