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 ...

The saga of the unwelcome guest from New York, a traveling trash train filled with 2,000 tons of rotting garbage, became two sagas Wednesday night. The longer part left Illinois and the shorter part ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARTERET - Mayor Daniel Reiman issued a statement criticizing CONRAIL as "irresponsible" and renewed his call for the State to reject a plan to expand the tracks currently situated within yards of a ...