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 ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation apparently has given up its efforts to divert $2 million earmarked for returning passenger trains to the Lehigh Valley. The director of PennDOT’s Public ...

Conrail Inc. will close its inspection, processing and repair operations at its Enola Yard facility near Harrisburg and cut 198 jobs by Oct. 4, the Philadelphia-based company said yesterday. Conrail ...

An Amtrak spokesman confirmed yesterday that tests on urine samples provided by the crews of both trains that collided Friday near Chase produced no evidence of alcohol or drug abuse. Spokesmen for ...

Conrail Inc. has been ordered to pay more than $8 million in damages to the family of a man who was killed when a Conrail train collided with a truck in which he was a passenger. Conrail was ordered ...

CARTERET - Mayor Daniel Reiman issued a statement criticizing CONRAIL as "irresponsible" and renewed his call for the State to reject a plan to expand the tracks currently situated within yards of a ...

PHILADELPHIA – Conrail, whose trains were stopped by a surprise strike Friday, was getting things back on track Saturday. About 3,400 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees were ...