Don't sleep on the overnight train between Pittsburgh and Chicago. Why it matters: When factoring in security wait times, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A new temporary Amtrak train service will soon connect Chicago and Miami—combining the Capitol Limited and Silver Star services for a limited time. The Floridian Amtrak service will ...

Train cars sit on the rail line that passes through Goulds, part of the former Pennsylvania Railroad that is being targeted for the implementation of a passenger rail connection between Chicago and ...

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 ...

Chicago’s Metra has taken delivery of all 15 SD70-MACH locomotives that it ordered from Progress Rail in 2019. The commuter railroad made the announcement in the fourth-quarter 2024 edition of its ...

MOLINE, Illinois (KWQC) - Decades of promises for a rail line to Chicago have yet to yield anything for people in the Quad Cities, leading many to be skeptical of the project seeing the light of day.

A truck carrying a high-value load of electronics got boxed in by passenger vehicles and robbed at a railroad crossing in broad daylight in Chicago last week. That's according to Overhaul, a security ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

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Ridership of Amtrak's Borealis line with service from the Twin Cities to Milwaukee and Chicago climbed to more than 200,000 passengers in its first year of operation, the agency reported May 21.