1993: A Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad commuter train raced by a red signal and crashed head-on into another ...

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network is interested in the Van Oostenbrugge Homestead in South Holland, slated for ...

For people moving to Illinois, getting familiar with Chicago’s expressways — which are referred to by name instead of number ...

Railroads proposing mergers inevitably make ambitious promises and projections, particularly about faster service and more ...

A new exhibition in Pilsen documents how Mexican and Mexican American workers helped build Chicago’s rail system and lived in boxcar communities. The show traces more than a century of labor history ...

POTUS 47 appoints a second Presidential Advisory Board (PEB) to help settle an ongoing contract dispute at MTA Long Island ...

One of Wyoming’s deadliest train wrecks killed 10 men and hurt 15 others, but has been nearly forgotten to history. One ...

Big Boy No. 4014, described as “the Elvis Presley of locomotives,” could begin its first ever coast-to-coast tour in just a ...

Despite a snow squall that snarled traffic and shut down Chicago’s airports for a couple of hours, the Midwest Association of ...

The analysis revealed a recurring cycle of industry opposition, FRA inaction, congressional capitulation and tragedy.

A yearly tradition will make its return this week as Chicago-area residents can get free transit rides on New Year’s Eve. All three major transit agencies in the city and suburbs will offer free rides ...

There's no shortage of luxury trains to choose from in Europe or Asia, from the glamorous Royal Scotsman to the iconic Golden Eagle. But in the US, most rail journeys are limited to Amtrak trains—and ...