Saying that area residents should not be subjected to a five-mile detour, the Public Utility Commission yesterday ordered Conrail to reopen a bridge in East Rockhill Township. The commission, ...

Two crewmen were injured today when their string of four Amtrak railroad locomotives collided with a coal-hauling Conrail freight train near Chase, the scene four years ago of another train wreck in ...

An Amtrak passenger train collided with three Conrail engines Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 175. It was the worst accident in Amtrak`s history in terms of fatalities. Rescue teams ...

Officials said it was clear the three-locomotive train, operated by Conrail, the national freight service, was on the wrong track. Joseph Nall of the National Transportation Safety Board said at a ...

A string of four Amtrak railroad engines slammed into a coal-hauling freight train today near Chase, seriously injuring two crewmen, Baltimore County police reported. The men were flown to the ...

For more than three months, part of the view from Glendon Mayor William G. Coker’s house has included barricades at the site of a washed-out section of Main Street. The heavy rains that washed out ...

Conrail officials denied today that there was any delay in reporting the contents of derailed train cars to Woodbridge emergency responders during an accident Sunday in a rail yard in the Port Reading ...

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 ...