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, ...

Conrail offered $1.5 billion for some key rail lines owned by Southern Pacific Rail Corp. as part of its opposition to Union Pacific Corp.’s planned acquisition of Southern Pacific. The ...

The ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD was one of the three major Cleveland components of the CONRAIL network which included the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD and the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The Erie-Lackawanna ...

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 ...

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 ...

CSX and Conrail said yesterday they have agreed to merge into a giant railroad system blanketing the East from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, a plan that would have a major impact on freight and ...