In this special installment of Trackside Finds, Cody Grivno introduces you to nine former Conrail units that found new homes Growing up in northwestern Minnesota, the two railroads I was most familiar ...

Three iconic rail industry veterans—Darius W. Gaskins, Jr., Robert D. Krebs and James A. Hagen—were inducted into the National Railroad Hall of Fame (NRRHF) in a Nov. 8 ceremony at BNSF Railway ...

Conrail locomotives: Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history, heritage, and style of Conrail all through April 2022. Enjoy this photo gallery of Conrail locomotives selected from the ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) will hold a public hearing March 15-16 to consider finalizing a long-pending, shipper instigated rulemaking that could loosen the standard for imposing a ...

Conrail clerk Tom Mullin seems numbed by the transition that rail service has gone through in recent years. He says the sale of Conrail toNorfolk Southern Corp. would not make much difference. The ...

Aha, say the aha-sayers. Conrail’s net income and total revenues dropped in the second quarter and first half of thisyear from year-ago levels. That proves Conrail can’t survive as an independent ...

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has stoked up the first legislative challenge to the administration’s proposal to sell Conrail, the government-owned freight carrier, to Norfolk Southern.Specter introduced ...

An investor group led by Morgan Stanley & Co. sweetened its bid for Conrail by $200 million in cash, to $1.4 billion, saying the higher price is justified because of the freight railroad`s strong 1985 ...

Conrail, the government-owned railroad that was considered a basket case by the industry just five years ago, is an attractive bride since being nursed back to financial health by her Uncle Sam. But ...

CHUGGING ALONG. The Senate Tuesday approved and sent to the House the Reagan administration’s plan to sell Conrail, the government-owned freight railroad, to Norfolk Southern Corp. for $1.2 billion.

Fran Drescher is opening up about a “traumatizing” ordeal in 1985 in which intruders broke into her home, blindfolded, and tied up her then-husband, and proceeded to rape and assault Drescher and a ...