When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm ...

With the right policies to support investment, innovation and regulation, Chicago can remain the nation's freight hub for ...

Though the sight is familiar to many Chicagoans, folks braving their first Midwest winter or those who’ve never seen the phenomenon may be surprised to see small fires burning along Metra railroad ...

If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

The 2026 edition of Railway Age’s Next-Gen Freight Rail (NGFR) conference, March 10 at the Union League Club of Chicago, ...

Chicago’s Metra has taken delivery of all 15 SD70-MACH locomotives that it ordered from Progress Rail in 2019. The commuter railroad made the announcement in the fourth-quarter 2024 edition of its ...

A CTA Brown Line train hit a car in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood.

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVD) -- Think it's cold in North Carolina? Well, states to our north and northwest are experiencing temperatures that are much, much worse. Temperatures at Chicago's O'Hare Airport ...