David LeVan, chairman of Conrail, will not get to lead one of the largest railroads in the United States, as he once planned. But he will get a $22 million golden parachute if federal regulators ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Philadelphia muralist Ash Ryan doesn’t think she would be getting paid to do art ...

It took Conrail maintenance-of-way forces less than three days to repair heavy damage to its Lehigh Line, a busy main line used by New Jersey Transit Raritan Valley Line (RVL) passenger trains and CSX ...

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 ...

First, some history. To address the looming collapse of freight and passenger rail traffic in the East as a result of those railroad bankruptcies, Congress passed the Regional Rail Reorganization Act ...

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 ...

Dan Hafiz lives in the North Bank development across from the pier and likes the idea of a park. "I think that's a great idea. I think you're balancing more public spaces with preserving the artistry ...

James A. Hagen is a quiet, self-effacing kind of guy who has taken upon himself the modest goal of reinventing Conrail. As the new chairman, president and chief executive officer of the ...

Three years ago this summer, Conrail won an arduous struggle to control its destiny: Congress let it be an independent, publicly held corporation rather than allow it to be sold to Norfolk Southern ...

James A. Hagen could probably win a contest as the most soft-spoken, mild-mannered chief executive of a major American corporation. But the white-haired Conrail chairman, on the job for only five ...

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 of ...