Abandoned railroad tracks will be removed from 10 public street crossings in Freemansburg and Bethlehem this summer, Conrail officials said this week. A public hearing on the issue was held Tuesday in ...

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 ...

Union employees will begin voting next week on a proposed contract that could settle a 3-1/2-year dispute with Conrail. But Daniel Quier, president of Local 498 of the United Transportation Union, ...

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. agreed late Friday to an amended merger agreement that allows suitors CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. to split the railroad and end months of legal and corporate brawling. The ...

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 ...