Getting there, they say, is half the fun. One group of travelers would have begged to differ. Because what should have been a ...

Department of Neighborhood Services issued a violation order to Union Pacific, owner of the train tracks behind South 15th Place. A month after the order's deadline, the garbage is now gone.

Amtrak’s Silver Meteor and Palmetto routes travel from New York City to Florida, offering city views, coastal charm, and ...

“Look for a building with the color of a weather-beaten boxcar and you have the first passenger station of the Milwaukee in ...

Discover wildly unique Illinois restaurants: sassy servers, hot-dog icons, drag dining, train cars, and BBQ legends worth the ...

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

A minor Amtrak derailment Sunday night is continuing to lead to delays for some Metra service into and out of Chicago Union ...

It's hard to tell the history of the Northwoods without including the railroads. When the locomotive came to Wisconsin, so ...

ABC7 Chicago reported that Metra halted all inbound and outbound trains in the Bartlett area and flagged "extensive delays" ...

Long before the federal onslaught, a Twin Cities museum showed what it meant to find a home in America.

The 133-foot-long locomotive, the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks, returned to service in 2019 and has made multiple ...

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