New Line Cinema is readying Conrail, the story of a real-life teenage Robin Hood based on the true story of Eddie Mongon, who spent a decade as the ringleader of a gang that robbed trains and shared the proceeds with the working-class poor of his hometown of Hoboken, N.J.
Mongon led dozens of kids in a gang known as the Conrail Boyz, who used a combination of high-tech equipment and street smarts to steal millions of dollars in merchandise from freight trains, trucking companies and shipping outlets to sell it on the black market.
After his parents, sister and girlfriend were arrested for money laundering and conspiracy, the 28-year-old Mongon surrendered to New Jersey authorities last July.
