Before CN or CSX rolled out Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) under the leadership of the late E. Hunter Harrison, a much smaller terminal railroad company in the eastern U.S. was demonstrating ...

‘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 ...

No. 203 sports a paint scheme replicating one the MTA applied in 1979 on seven Conrail dual-mode EMD FL9 diesel-electric locomotives. They were the first to sport the “MTA Central” scheme, with a ...

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 ...