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 ...

Take a tour of Conrail’s Pavonia Yard and to the naked eye, there isn’t much that appears different compared with other switching yards. But there are certain aspects — some not-that-noticeable yet ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia muralist Ash Ryan doesn’t think she would be getting paid to do art ...

The half-mile gorge in Kensington and Fairhill that is cut by a Conrail line has been home to scores of heroin users and hundreds of thousands of needles for nearly three decades. After more than ...

Conrail began work Monday to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods of Philadelphia that’s home to a vast encampment of heroin users. While Conrail ...

Conrail has contracted with Cloud-hosted software provider Comply365 to roll out a content management system and mobile app for train crews, eliminating the need for paper rulebooks. The move will ...

A U.S. Court of Appeals has unanimously affirmed the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS), and Conrail merger. In the transaction approved by STB, CSX and NS ...

‘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 ...