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 this day, Jan. 4, in 1987, an Amtrak train that had left the District collided with Conrail engines in Baltimore County, killing 16 people. Conrail engineer Ricky Gates had been smoking marijuana ...
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 ...
A horrific crash stunned the nation when Amtrak Train 94 collided with a Conrail train in the Chase area on Jan. 4, 1987. Yahoo Entertainment ...
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 ...