Conrail, the freight railway with 7,200 miles of track in Pennsylvania, is riddled with safety problems stemming from mismanagement and human error, according to a Federal Railroad Administration ...

Conrail officials admitted yesterday that faulty communications endangered the lives of five area volunteer firefighters at a Hanover Township, Lehigh County, brush fire last week. The Federal ...

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 ...

Opening its new term Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review several issues involving Sunday work, a city`s displays of Christian and Jewish religious symbols, teenage nightclubs and drug ...

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 ...