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 & ...

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 ...

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 ...