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 ...

The fight between CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. over Conrail raises the possibility of government intervention and means shareholders should look elsewhere for railroad investments, according ...

Conrail, one of two railroads serving the port of Baltimore, is exploring the possibility of re-establishing a direct ship-to-rail connection at Dundalk Marine Terminal. In the early 1980s, Conrail ...

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 ...

CSX Corp. said yesterday that it plans to buy Conrail Inc. for $8.4 billion, creating one of the world’s biggest freight companies, but igniting concerns about job losses in Maryland and rail ...

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, ...

Speculation has resurfaced that Norfolk Southern Corp. is about to buy Conrail Inc. in a railroad megamerger. Business Week magazine reports in its Oct. 30 edition that the word on Wall Street is that ...

Bowing out of the fray over Conrail`s sale last week, Norfolk Southern Corp. paved the way for a public sale of the federally owned freight line. But the government`s push to unload Conrail still ...

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 ...

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods where heroin users have lived and shot up for years.

Asteria Vives peers into the shack that served as the "doctor's office" at "El Campamento." (Joel Wolfram for WHYY) As the second week of clearing out the heroin havens along the Conrail railroad ...