John G. Kneiling, by profession a consulting engineer, wrote Trains Magazine’s Professional Iconoclast column for many years.

CARTERET - Mayor Daniel Reiman issued a statement criticizing CONRAIL as "irresponsible" and renewed his call for the State to reject a plan to expand the tracks currently situated within yards of a ...

The city of Philadelphia issued citations Thursday against local railroad service provider Conrail for failing to adequately secure the property along its tracks in West Kensington and Fairhill. Mayor ...

David LeVan, chairman of Conrail, will not get to lead one of the largest railroads in the United States, as he once planned. But he will get a $22 million golden parachute if federal regulators ...

Before CN or CSX rolled out Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) under the leadership of the late E. Hunter Harrison, a much smaller terminal railroad company in the eastern U.S. was demonstrating ...

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 ...

CSX ES44AH No. 1976, in Conrail colors, is the fourth in a series of heritage locomotives created by employees at the company’s Waycross Locomotive Shop in Georgia “as a way of celebrating CSX’s rich ...

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 ...