Like clockwork, Emmaus resident Vera Miller knows what to do when she hears her kitchen pans rattle and smells the whiff of diesel fumes seep through her open windows. The vibrating ruckus and noxious ...

An Amtrak passenger train collided with three Conrail engines Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 175. It was the worst accident in Amtrak`s history in terms of fatalities. Rescue teams ...

The days of Conrail will come alive again this weekend at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The museum, in conjunction with the Conrail Historical Society, will feature the equipment, ...

John G. Kneiling, by profession a consulting engineer, wrote Trains Magazine’s Professional Iconoclast column for many years. His column called out perceived problems with the rail industry and ...

Sifting the facts of the recent collision between four Amtrak locomotives and a Conrail coal train near Chase, the one clear lesson is that those who ignore the past aren’t the only ones condemned to ...

On this day, Jan. 4, in 1987, an Amtrak train that had left the District collided with Conrail engines in Baltimore County, killing 16 people. Conrail engineer Ricky Gates had been smoking marijuana ...

More than a dozen freight cars and locomotives jumped their tracks Tuesday when two trains collided at a rail intersection in Momence, just 11 miles east of last week’s fatal Amtrak crash. Many of the ...