‘Twas the Saturday night before Christmas and a Conrail “Santa Train,” lit up and decorated for the season, struck a minivan at a crossing in South Plainfield, leaving the driver uninjured but his ...

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 ...

Getting a Conrail train back on track after a Monday derailment in Bayonne was an all-night job for cranes, which hoisted the cars into the air before placing them on an adjacent track, a Conrail ...

No injuries were reported Wednesday after a cargo train derailed overnight in Gloucester County, authorities said. The incident involved a Conrail train that came off the tracks along Gateway ...

A derailment in South Jersey a decade ago unleashed a hazardous vapor cloud "Immediately I was thinking, 'These poor people,’ because I know what’s coming their way," said Pat Schubert as he watched ...

VINELAND — A pedestrian was struck by an oncoming freight train Wednesday morning. The Conrail train struck the individual about 11:35 a.m. near Grape Street. The individual was taken to a hospital ...