Conrail passenger trains are probably the least known of all the aspects of the big blue railroad’s operations over time. The very first FL9 built, Conrail 5000, is alive and well August 17, 1981, as ...

This map has been almost 25 years in coming. As soon as Conrail was formed in 1976, Trains readers began requesting a huge “breakdown” map of Conrail coded to predecessor railroads. The project was ...

L. Stanley Crane, 87, the retired board chairman and chief executive of Southern Railway who became head of the failing Conrail system and led it to remarkable success, died of pneumonia July 15 at a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The City of Philadelphia joined officials from Conrail on Monday to take the first step in a multi-pronged strategic effort to clean up the infamous railroad tracks in Fairhill ...