It was a new year in the dead of winter when a northbound Amtrak train derailed not long before it would make its next stop in Delaware. Around 1:30 p.m., Amtrak Train 94 collided with a Conrail train ...
On January 4, 1987, a Conrail freight crew drove their train while high on marijuana through Maryland. They missed multiple warning signals and stopped directly on an active passenger track near Chase ...
More than 600 returning holiday passengers were aboard Amtrak’s Colonial on Jan. 4, 1987, en route from Newport News to Boston, on what would later prove to be a fateful Sunday afternoon that those ...
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 ...