HOUSE LEAVES AUTOMATIC CUTS INTACT FOR FISCAL 1986. In a move that may well foreshadow the rest of the legislative year, Republicans tried unsuccessfully to force the Democratic-controlled House to ...

Two Lehigh Valley legislators will meet tomorrow with a PennDOT official to pitch the idea of having the state buy a stretch of local rail line its owner, Conrail, wants to abandon and dismantle.

The House Transportation Subcommittee had a nice clean bill authorizing the public sale of the Consolidated Rail Corp. for a couple of billion badly needed dollars and it perversely insisted on ...

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 ...

Conrail, the government-owned railroad that was considered a basket case by the industry just five years ago, is an attractive bride since being nursed back to financial health by her Uncle Sam. But ...