An international student’s assault on a Chicago train last month has reignited fears about safety and belonging for foreign ...

When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm ...

Though the sight is familiar to many Chicagoans, folks braving their first Midwest winter or those who’ve never seen the phenomenon may be surprised to see small fires burning along Metra railroad ...

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Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. In 2026, America will mark its 250th anniversary — a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...