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

The days of Conrail will come alive again this weekend at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The museum, in conjunction with the Conrail Historical Society, will feature the equipment, ...

The fight between CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. over Conrail raises the possibility of government intervention and means shareholders should look elsewhere for railroad investments, according ...

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 ...

Have you ever driven past the same building day after day and wondered what it looks like inside? Have you ever only seen a space from the street and wondered what lies within? Maybe the location is ...

The new Reading and Blue Mountain Northern Railroad Co. of Hamburg has bought nearly 129 miles of track — much of it running through the coal mining regions of Schuylkill County — from Conrail for an ...

Asteria Vives peers into the shack that served as the "doctor's office" at "El Campamento." (Joel Wolfram for WHYY) As the second week of clearing out the heroin havens along the Conrail railroad ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The city of Detroit has agreed to buy 76 acres from ...

Conrail Inc. offered Union Pacific Corp. $1.5 billion for key rail lines owned by Southern Pacific Rail Corp. before it mounted opposition to Union Pacific’s plan to acquire Southern Pacific. The ...

Norfolk Southern Corp. dramatically upped the bidding for Conrail Inc., topping CSX’s recent offer by nearly $1 billion yesterday and threatening to launch a hostile takeover if necessary. While the ...

Members of Teamsters Local 557 are picketing a Conrail terminal in Baltimore because the railroad has awarded the work the union once did to a company the union says is employing non-union workers.