These days, an idea doesn’t necessarily have to be new to catch everybody’s attention. If the concept is very, very old, it can seem new, fashionable — retro, if you will. You see it in fashion and ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Instead of six-shooters and horses, these modern-day train robbers used two-way radios, night-vision goggles and bolt cutters. Instead of bandanas, they had ski caps monogrammed "CRB," ...
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 ...
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 ...
Railway traffic through the Lehigh Valley could double or triple now that a local railroad has been bought out of bankruptcy by an expansive Canadian rail system. More traffic may mean more jobs ...
Robbing a freight train is surprisingly easy, if you know how. The darkness of night provides the cover. With a stopped or slow-moving train that`s fully loaded and stretched out for a mile, often the ...
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 ...