The first new diesel, the six-axle SDP40F (a variation based on the venerable SD40-2) wasn't a success ... Based on the successful GP-40, the F40PH was born and entered Amtrak service 49 years ...

Metra has announced a comprehensive 2025 construction programme, focusing on station improvements, track maintenance ...

To address this, Metra is seeking rider input on two proposed naming systems through a public survey. This move is both ...

Metra has unveiled its 2025 construction programme, detailing a series of infrastructure improvements across its network.

Metra is having “great luck” with its fleet of SD70MACH locomotives, Chief Operating Officer Kevin McCann told the Sandhouse ...

A Metra train arrives at the LaSalle Street Metra Station. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share Metra deserves credit for thinking about renaming each of its 14 commuter rail lines in a bid to help ...

Trains on the Metra BNSF line were halted just in time for the afternoon rush Monday, after a train hit and killed a pedestrian in Downers Grove, Illinois. Downers Grove police said at 4:36 p.m ...

More than 50% of BNSF trains canceled. Half of the 'L' shut down. No Pace weekend service. Transit leaders laid out a ...

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.

A pedestrian was hit and killed by a Metra train in Downers Grove, Illinois Tuesday morning. According to Metra officials, an inbound BNSF train hit a pedestrian around 7:30 a.m. in Downers Grove.

According to Metra, BNSF train No. 1228 hit a pedestrian around 7:30 a.m. near the Downers Grove station at 5001 Main Street. Inbound and outbound train movement has resumed near Main Street.

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- BNSF Metra trains are moving normally again in the west suburbs after a train hit a man, the commuter rail and police said Monday. Trains were stopped near the Downers ...