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 ...

Getting a Conrail train back on track after a Monday derailment in Bayonne was an all-night job for cranes, which hoisted the cars into the air before placing them on an adjacent track, a Conrail ...

it sat idling on the tracks in South Scranton on Sept. 19, 1977. When it slipped backwards out of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad yard and began an unscheduled trip to Edwardsville at 10:20 p.m. that ...

THOMPSONTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — On Jan. 14, 1988, Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) train TV-61 was traveling west from Harrisburg to Chicago along track 2 of the Harrisburg-Pittsburgh main line.

‘Twas the Saturday night before Christmas and a Conrail “Santa Train,” lit up and decorated for the season, struck a minivan at a crossing in South Plainfield, leaving the driver uninjured but his ...