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

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 ...

CHICAGO — Miles of downed trees and power lines through rural Missouri and Arkansas over the weekend resulted in half-day ...

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 ...

A January report from the Federal Railroad Administration recommends restoring Amtrak routes across the West, including through Cheyenne. It ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Metra is phasing out the names for some of its lines, and wants to hear from its riders. The commuter rail is phasing out the Union Pacific North, Northwest and West lines. Some new ...

A longtime Amtrak train conductor credited with crafting a business plan that helped revive the mothballed Winter Park ...

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 ...

Union Pacific Railroad has notified employees in the East Texas town of Palestine that their jobs — kept in place by an 1872 ...