Ride Amtrak outside of the Northeast Corridor and there’s a good chance you’ll arrive late because freight traffic delayed your train — despite the law that gives passenger trains preference. Amtrak ...

A 27-year-old man and four others were arrested after stealing from a freight train in Englewood Friday morning, police said.

Stadler is adding a train battery charging station to its manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City as it tries to demonstrate ...

As freight traffic inches up in the suburbs ... With 11 freights plus Metra trains, “we’re really not going to be able to depend on crossing the railroad tracks as a route to get to an ...

He acknowledged that “we have a lot of train problems in our town, living on what's essentially the busiest freight line in the Midwest. But I'm not against it, I just don't think it's going to ...

The Regional Transport Authority — which oversees the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra regional rail and PACE — could face ...

Metra would run its trains less frequently, with lines that haven’t had ... it would be hard to restore them on the seven lines it doesn’t own outright. “We fight with freight [railroads] for every ...

A Metra train hit a pedestrian Wednesday in the west Chicago suburb of Brookfield. Brookfield police said at 7:49 p.m. that ...

A pedestrian was hit by a Metra train in Brookfield on Wednesday night. Trains are stopped and delays are expected.