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 ...

A Conrail engineman lost his job as the result of an Aug. 28, 1977, train crash on the Rockville Bridge. According to reports in The Patriot, six cars and three engines of two Conrail freight trains ...

From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few ...

James A. Hagen is a quiet, self-effacing kind of guy who has taken upon himself the modest goal of reinventing Conrail. As the new chairman, president and chief executive officer of the ...

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 ...