A man sitting on the Conrail tracks near the S. 2nd Street crossing in Emmaus suffered an injured foot yesterday when hit by a train after the conductor stopped it abruptly, according to police. The ...

In Plainfield Township, a Slate Belt community of about 5,000, the recent acquisition of a century-old railroad line represents the only source of public recreation. Township officials, both past and ...

The engineer of the Conrail train involved in the worst accident in Amtrak history was indicted Monday on 16 counts of manslaughter by locomotive. Ricky Gates, 32, of Essex, Md., was the engineer of ...

A PATH conductor attempting to drive a crowded train, unaware that it had derailed. Crewmen not watching as the trains they're supposed to be operating roll over improperly aligned switches. A Conrail ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier Monday for railroads to test workers for drugs, ruling 7-2 that union approval is not needed for drug tests to be conducted during routine physical examinations.

It was a new year in the dead of winter when a northbound Amtrak train derailed not long before it would make its next stop in Delaware. Around 1:30 p.m., Amtrak Train 94 collided with a Conrail train ...

WASHINGTON — Thirty years ago, an Amtrak bound for D.C. from Boston collided with a Conrail train that had crossed into its path in Baltimore County. Sixteen people were killed in the Chase, Maryland, ...

Train released more than 100%2C000 pounds of toxic chemicals when it derailed in Paulsboro In separate complaint%2C group of emergency responders accuses rail line of negligence More than 250 people ...