Saying that area residents should not be subjected to a five-mile detour, the Public Utility Commission yesterday ordered Conrail to reopen a bridge in East Rockhill Township. The commission, ...

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, ...

First, some history. To address the looming collapse of freight and passenger rail traffic in the East as a result of those railroad bankruptcies, Congress passed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act ...

It was a new year in the dead of winter when a northbound Amtrak train derailed not long before it would make its next stop in Delaware. Around 1:30 p.m., Amtrak Train 94 collided with a Conrail train ...

A string of four Amtrak railroad engines slammed into a coal-hauling freight train today near Chase, seriously injuring two crewmen, Baltimore County police reported. The men were flown to the ...

Officials from Allentown and five northern Lehigh County communities said yesterday they are interested in purchasing an estimated 237 acres of Conrail property along the Lehigh River from Slatington ...

The brakeman on a Conrail locomotive involved in a deadly crash with an Amtrak train near Baltimore Jan. 4 had traces of the drug PCP in his urine, federal investigators said Wednesday. The National ...

An Amtrak spokesman confirmed yesterday that tests on urine samples provided by the crews of both trains that collided Friday near Chase produced no evidence of alcohol or drug abuse. Spokesmen for ...

Norfolk Southern Corp. has abandoned its latest effort to acquire Conrail because a hostile takeover would be too expensive and the chances for success are slim, according to railroad-industry sources ...

Brian E. Gorton, who began his career in 1987 as a Conrail conductor, has returned to his “home railroad” as President and Chief Operating Officer. He succeeds Timothy C. Tierney, who is retiring ...