Geneva and six other municipalities on the Union Pacific West Line are looking to jointly represent their interests in the ...

Cheyenne-based Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will make its first ever coast-to-coast tour ...

Water, wildlife, and wide-open spaces; the prairie's most valuable assets gave birth to what would become Chicago, and those ...

Control of a key local entity is one of the reasons the Surface Transportation Board denied the merger application for now.

The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.

This Illinois town shaped by railroads and highways features a railroad park, local history museums, antique stores, and an ...

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

When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm where there is neither TSA nor WiFi.

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 ...

BERKELEY, Ill. — Seven suburban communities along Union Pacific’s east-west main line are organizing to pursue representation ...

Barrington officials say they are making progress toward the goal of installing pedestrian crossing gates at the village’s ...

As they look ahead to 2026, officials in both Lake Forest and Lake Bluff are focused on a mix of long-term planning and ...