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 ...

A Conrail railroad crossing and a tractor-trailer out of Texas were destroyed yesterday morning when the truck and a train crashed in flames in Fleetwood, Berks County, Fleetwood police said. The ...

It’s a dull gray fall afternoon and a Conrail freight train, designated ALCS (short for Allentown to Chessie System, a private railroad network created mostly out of a merger of the old Chesapeake & ...

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 ...

Conrail was fined $2.5 million for spilling oil and grease into the Charles River from its rail yard in Boston’s Allston section, the U.S. attorney’s office said Monday. The railroad agreed to plead ...

Tuesday’s collision between an Amtrak train and a truck in Gary occurred 11 months to the day after a similar crash between a passenger train and a semi at a rail crossing only 100 yards away. And ...