Conrail began work Monday to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods of Philadelphia that’s home to a vast encampment of heroin users. While Conrail ...

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First, some history. To address the looming collapse of freight and passenger rail traffic in the East as a result of those railroad bankruptcies, Congress passed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act ...

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, the freight railway with 7,200 miles of track in Pennsylvania, is riddled with safety problems stemming from mismanagement and human error, according to a Federal Railroad Administration ...

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 ...

It took Conrail maintenance-of-way forces less than three days to repair heavy damage to its Lehigh Line, a busy main line used by New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line (RVL) passenger trains and CSX ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — A dog named Conrail, who survived being struck by a train in Blair County, is now receiving care from the Central PA Humane Society. The dog was found by a humane officer ...