A man sitting on the Conrail tracks near the S. 2nd Street crossing in Emmaus suffered an injured foot yesterday when hit by a train after the conductor stopped it abruptly, according to police. The ...

Railroads proposing mergers inevitably make ambitious promises and projections, particularly about faster service and more competition. Not all of them become reality, despite the best intentions 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 ...

Three years ago this summer, Conrail won an arduous struggle to control its destiny: Congress let it be an independent, publicly held corporation rather than allow it to be sold to Norfolk Southern ...