Talk of Burlington Northern passenger trains inevitably conjures visions of green E units toting bilevel stainless steel ...

Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger ...

A change in the operation on three of Metra’s lines is giving the agency an opportunity to rename all 14 lines, and the ...

Union Pacific Railroad owns those lines and has historically operated them with its own employees, but UP no longer wants to run passenger trains. Metra has been hiring many of UP's workers and ...

Officials say there were no major injuries Friday afternoon when a locomotive collided with a Ford pickup truck on the Union ...

Metra is considering renaming all of its lines, as the rail agency prepares ... lines to the commuter railroad. For decades, Metra paid Union Pacific to operate passenger service on the three ...

Commuter service for thousands of Union Pacific riders is in jeopardy amid an impasse with the freight railroad over track ...

Metra has launched a survey to get feedback on potentially renaming lines to make the system “easier to understand for new ...

In the latest twist in Union Pacific’s long-running effort to exit Chicago commuter rail operations, commuter agency Metra ...

We recently published a list of 10 Best Railroad Stocks To Buy Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where ...