The recurrent problem of railroad crossing gates being down when no train is passing hasn’t been solved in Allentown. But a Conrail executive assured city officials yesterday he will try to remedy the ...

CSX and Conrail said yesterday they have agreed to merge into a giant railroad system blanketing the East from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, a plan that would have a major impact on freight and ...

Before CN or CSX rolled out Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) under the leadership of the late E. Hunter Harrison, a much smaller terminal railroad company in the eastern U.S. was demonstrating ...

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, ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The city of Detroit has agreed to buy 76 acres from ...

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 ...

Asteria Vives peers into the shack that served as the "doctor's office" at "El Campamento." (Joel Wolfram for WHYY) As the second week of clearing out the heroin havens along the Conrail railroad ...

Conrail offered $1.5 billion for some key rail lines owned by Southern Pacific Rail Corp. as part of its opposition to Union Pacific Corp.’s planned acquisition of Southern Pacific. The ...

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods where heroin users have lived and shot up for years.

Conrail, one of two railroads serving the port of Baltimore, is exploring the possibility of re-establishing a direct ship-to-rail connection at Dundalk Marine Terminal. In the early 1980s, Conrail ...

Bowing out of the fray over Conrail`s sale last week, Norfolk Southern Corp. paved the way for a public sale of the federally owned freight line. But the government`s push to unload Conrail still ...