These days, an idea doesn’t necessarily have to be new to catch everybody’s attention. If the concept is very, very old, it can seem new, fashionable — retro, if you will. You see it in fashion and ...

An unwelcome guest from New York, a traveling trash train filled with 2,000 tons of rotting garbage, finally pulled out of Streator, Ill., early Wednesday evening, apparently headed back where it came ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Railway traffic through the Lehigh Valley could double or triple now that a local railroad has been bought out of bankruptcy by an expansive Canadian rail system. More traffic may mean more jobs ...