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Talk of creating a space to display Conrail’s history began in 2018 or 2019, said Allen Dieterich-Ward, a board member of the Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trails Committee.
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Conrail Historical Society is announcing a new piece of railroad equipment they plan to use as a Conrail Museum & Archive. The X67 class boxcar was built in 1970 ...
April 1, 1976 was a watershed day in U.S. railroading history. On that day, Consolidated Rail Corp., better known as Conrail, began operating under the auspices of the U.S. government a new railroad ...
He is president of the Conrail Historical Society, and he and his wife, Carolyn Hoffman, are working to start a transportation museum in Port Jervis.
But come next April 3, history could repeat itself for the Philadelphia-based railroad. ... Conrail`s freight revenues rose to $3.5 billion last year from $3.1 billion in 1986, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conrail met with the city of Philadelphia, specifically Councilmember Mark Squilla, who represents the district which includes Graffiti Pier, this week. Squilla said he’s confident that the pier will ...
Rail company Conrail owns the pier, which was once used as a loading dock for ships hauling coal. The pier juts into the Delaware River near Cumberland Street in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood.
CSX ES44AH No. 1976, in Conrail colors, is the fourth in a series of heritage locomotives created by employees at the company’s Waycross Locomotive Shop in Georgia “as a way of celebrating CSX’s rich ...
NORTH WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The Metro-North Railroad has unveiled the seventh unit in its heritage locomotive series and the first to be repainted, rather than wrapped. The scheme on MN P32AC-DM ...