Conrail began work Monday to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods of Philadelphia that’s home to a vast encampment of heroin users. While Conrail ...

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Conrail, the freight railway with 7,200 miles of track in Pennsylvania, is riddled with safety problems stemming from mismanagement and human error, according to a Federal Railroad Administration ...

KENSINGTON (WPVI) -- Philadelphia officials and Conrail have started the massive project of cleaning up a notorious open-air heroin market. Within 30 days the mile and a half drug corridor in ...

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 ...

It took Conrail maintenance-of-way forces less than three days to repair heavy damage to its Lehigh Line, a busy main line used by New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line (RVL) passenger trains and CSX ...

Conrail’s Board of Directors has named Timothy Tierney President and Chief Operating Officer, effective April 1. Tierney succeeds Ronald Batory, who is retiring after nearly 46 years in the railroad ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is still closed as crews work to repair a Conrail bridge that was damaged earlier this week by an oversized truckload. PennDOT says ...

Three years ago this summer, Conrail won an arduous struggle to control its destiny: Congress let it be an independent, publicly held corporation rather than allow it to be sold to Norfolk Southern ...