Merck Union Retirees' Club

06/22/2026

The real vandals!

06/22/2026

Pennsylvania will place artifacts in America's Time Capsule, a national record that will remain sealed for the next 250 years.

06/22/2026

The GI Bill transformed Veterans’ lives through education benefits and affordable home loans. VA continues to help ensure its benefits meet the needs of Veterans, their families and survivors—today and beyond.

06/22/2026

At the AFL-CIO's 30th national convention in Minneapolis, delegates re-elected leaders and pledged to add 2 million union members by 2032.

06/22/2026

A new pilot program bringing prior authorization, including using AI to review requests for care, to parts of traditional Medicare is off to a shaky start.

06/22/2026

06/22/2026

Is your contact info up to date? DHS sends important information – including benefits renewal information – through the mail.

Make sure your contact info is up to date with both DHS and the US Postal Service so that you receive information about your benefits!

06/22/2026

Human trafficking can happen anywhere, to anyone, and at any time.
Report Human Trafficking! Call the National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888.

Suspect human trafficking of a child? Call ChildLine: 1-800-932-0313

06/22/2026

The Pennsylvania Railroad was once the largest corporation in the United States. 🚂 Not the largest railroad. The largest corporation — period. At its peak in the early 20th century, the PRR employed over 250,000 people, operated more than 10,000 miles of track, and moved more freight and passengers than any other railroad on earth. Its main line through the Alleghenies was an engineering marvel. Its stations — including the original Pennsylvania Station in New York City — were architectural masterpieces. The keystone logo was one of the most recognized symbols in America.

And then it was gone. A series of devastating business decisions, the rise of the interstate highway system, the collapse of American passenger rail, and a catastrophic merger with the New York Central Railroad in 1968 produced the Penn Central bankruptcy — the largest corporate bankruptcy in American history at the time. Thousands of miles of track were abandoned. Locomotives were scrapped or left to rust. Penn Station was demolished in an act of civic vandalism so outrageous it directly inspired the creation of the National Historic Preservation Act. The PRR's ghost still runs through Pennsylvania's geography — in the tunnels, the grades, the rights-of-way that became highways and trails — but the railroad itself vanished like smoke. 🛤️

Did your family work for the Pennsylvania Railroad? Do you remember riding the trains? Tell us your PRR story in the comments. 👇 Follow this page for more of the history Pennsylvania built — and lost.