CSX ES44AH No. 1976, in Conrail colors, is the fourth in a series of heritage locomotives created by employees at the company’s Waycross Locomotive Shop in Georgia “as a way of celebrating CSX’s rich ...

Chuck Barnard of Batavia submitted these photos showing a Conrail locomotive that nearly crashed into Scopano’s Bowling Lanes in Oakfield sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The locomotive had ...

Chuck Barnard of Batavia sent this photo showing a Conrail locomotive that nearly crashed into Scopano’s Bowling Lanes in Oakfield sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The locomotive had been ...

NJ Transit recently introduced its latest heritage locomotive—the GP40PH-2B No. 4208, freshly painted in Conrail livery. “This striking locomotive honors our rich history with Conrail, which operated ...

An Amtrak passenger train collided with three Conrail engines Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 175. It was the worst accident in Amtrak`s history in terms of fatalities. Rescue teams ...

“The Little Engine that Could” came to life Thursday morning in Bangor. A Conrail locomotive, the same color as the blue engine in Wally Piper’s book, stalled at the borough’s Main Street crossing ...

Two Conrail locomotive operators testified yesterday that they had carefully inspected a moveable train bridge before it collapsed sending four rail cars into a creek. The derailment punctured one ...

Francis Joseph Ruppel, a retired Conrail locomotive engineer, died of pneumonia Nov. 15 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 87. Mr. Ruppel was born in Baltimore and raised in ...

The days of Conrail will come alive again this weekend at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The museum, in conjunction with the Conrail Historical Society, will feature the equipment, ...

This year, MTA Metro-North Railroad is celebrating its 40th anniversary! The rail line first went into operation on January 1, 1983. To mark the occasion this summer, Metro-North has been rolling out ...

Climbing aboard the end of a boxcar, Conrail yardman John Morgan gets ready. Conductor Bob Allesch pulls the pin holding the cars together. With a hiss of air and gentle jolt, the boxcar uncouples ...

More than 600 returning holiday passengers were aboard Amtrak’s Colonial on Jan. 4, 1987, en route from Newport News to Boston, on what would later prove to be a fateful Sunday afternoon that those ...