The anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, ...

Class II Reading & Northern (RBMN), “The Road of Anthracite,” has surpassed hauling one million tons of the coal that provides its nickname. “Ever since December 1990 when Andy Muller Jr. purchased ...

Getting this new fuel out of the ground was one thing, but getting anthracite coal to market in Philadelphia was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals and sections of the ...

Despite a downturn in export volume, Reading & Northern Railroad shipped more than one million tons of Anthracite coal for the third straight year in 2025. The backbone of R&N’s Anthracite business ...

Each January, Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades ...

Coal and anthracite are synonymous with Northeast Pennsylvania, but when you think of a coal mine, you probably think of a dark, dingy cavern. But in reality, 9 ...

MAHANOY CITY — An industry trade association is calling on President Donald Trump to enact tariffs on imported anthracite coal, a spokesperson announced Wednesday. “The anthracite industry requests ...

When Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania succeeded in compromising the difference between anthracite miners and operators, it was done at the expense of a wage increase which added 60c to the ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month is here again, and once again our area’s genealogists will have the opportunity to explore the world of their ancestors. The full month of events this January will ...

Getting anthracite coal out of the ground was one thing, but getting this new fuel to market in Philadelphia in its early days was quite another. The Schuylkill Navigation System, a series of canals ...