Rail passengers, shippers and government officials joined yesterday to form an organization dedicated to derailing Conrail’s plan to dismantle a now- unused rail line between Hellertown and the Lehigh ...

HOUSE LEAVES AUTOMATIC CUTS INTACT FOR FISCAL 1986. In a move that may well foreshadow the rest of the legislative year, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to force the Democratic-controlled House to ...

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 ...

Bowie — Two 1950s vintage locomotives pulled the dark green train at a sedate pace across a wooded Southern Maryland landscape punctuated by old farms and ponds sprouting lily pads. From an ...

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 ...

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 ...