A Berks County railroad line has become the latest victim in the liability insurance crisis affecting municipalities and businesses across the country. The Blue Mountain & Reading Railroad, Hamburg, ...

HOUSE LEAVES AUTOMATIC CUTS INTACT FOR FISCAL 1986. In a move that may well foreshadow the rest of the legislative year, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to force the Democratic-controlled House to ...

Bowing out of the fray over Conrail`s sale last week, Norfolk Southern Corp. paved the way for a public sale of the federally owned freight line. But the government`s push to unload Conrail still ...

WASHINGTON — Thirty years ago, an Amtrak bound for D.C. from Boston collided with a Conrail train that had crossed into its path in Baltimore County. Sixteen people were killed in the Chase, Maryland, ...

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 ...

Bowie — Two 1950s vintage locomotives pulled the dark green train at a sedate pace across a wooded Southern Maryland landscape punctuated by old farms and ponds sprouting lily pads. From an ...