it sat idling on the tracks in South Scranton on Sept. 19, 1977. When it slipped backwards out of the old Erie Lackawanna Railroad yard and began an unscheduled trip to Edwardsville at 10:20 p.m. that ...

Before CN or CSX rolled out Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) under the leadership of the late E. Hunter Harrison, a much smaller terminal railroad company in the eastern U.S. was demonstrating ...

A Conrail freight train derailed in East Rockhill Township, Bucks County, yesterday afternoon after a high boxcar struck an overhead bridge. There were no injuries, according to officials. The new ...

New Jersey Transit’s Raritan Valley Line will resume its full regular weekday service on Thursday, following a Conrail freight train derailment in Union Township earlier this week. The line was ...

NEW YORK — Bucking widespread fears of a slowing economy, Conrail reported yesterday that it shipped more freight over the summer than during the same period last year. Overall traffic rose 5.1 ...

Freight trains will stop deliveries to businesses in the Quakertown area any time after next Friday, a Conrail spokesman said Thursday. The federal Surface Transportation Board has approved Conrail’s ...

Let’s hope Conrail isn’t re-regulated back into existence.