it sat idling on the tracks in South Scranton on Sept. 19, 1977. When it slipped backwards out of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad yard and began an unscheduled trip to Edwardsville at 10:20 p.m. that ...

A Conrail engineman lost his job as the result of an Aug. 28, 1977, train crash on the Rockville Bridge. According to reports in The Patriot, six cars and three engines of two Conrail freight trains ...

The engineer of the Conrail train involved in the worst accident in Amtrak history was indicted Monday on 16 counts of manslaughter by locomotive. Ricky Gates, 32, of Essex, Md., was the engineer of ...

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 ...