The saga of the unwelcome guest from New York, a traveling trash train filled with 2,000 tons of rotting garbage, became two sagas Wednesday night. The longer part left Illinois and the shorter part ...

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 ...

Amtrak, the nation’s passenger rail system, and Conrail, the dominant freight railroad in the Northeast, face the threat of a strike that most likely would begin in June. Although a strike could come ...

Three Teamsters Union members picket yesterday outside the Conrail Trail Van terminal in Harrisburg. Truck trailers are loaded onto rail cars for long-distance shipping at such facilities, called ...

“Clang, clang, clang went the trolley” in the old song and people smiled at the sound, but some of the people living along the new light rail line crossing at Seminary Avenue in Lutherville are not ...

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 ...