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 ...

Bethlehem City Council has agreed to spend up to $500,000 to help repair a storm water drainage problem and restore rail service to two city companies. But the contingencies on which that commitment ...

Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives are working feverishly to craft a piece of legislation that probably represents the last chance for the government to sell Conrail this year.

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 ...

CHASE, Md. (WBFF) — On January 4, 1987 an Amtrak train traveling from D.C. to Boston collided with a Conrail train on the tracks in Chase, Maryland. According to the National Transportation Safety ...

WASHINGTON — Thirty years ago, an Amtrak bound for D.C. from Boston collided with a Conrail train that had crossed into its path in Baltimore County. Sixteen people were killed in the Chase, Maryland, ...

“That will reduce by two-thirds the amount of time our motorists are delayed at the Basin Street grade crossing,” Mayor Joseph S. Daddona said yesterday. Instead of spending nine minutes for some of ...

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 ...