The famous cross-country holiday train, the Canadian Pacific, will make two stops in the Chicago area this season.

The new Madison City Council had two items on the agenda for its first work session Wednesday night: railroad crossing-related traffic delays and the city’s soon-to-expire half-cent sales ...

A landscaping worker killed in a crash last month had virtually no warning that a freight train was coming before it hit ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that the application period for the grants under the Rail Transportation Assistance Program (RTAP) and the Rail Freight Assistance ...

People living near railroad tracks in west suburban Hillside are making some noise about freight train horns that blow at all ...

Nightmare traffic at train crossings isn't a new problem for Old Metairie residents, but a recent flare-up of morning blockages near Airline Drive has Jefferson Parish officials gearing to beat the ...

Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations Processing System (Tops), when it ...

Kevin Damoa came face-to-face with the challenges and dangers of moving freight from road to rail as a 17-year-old U.S. Army enlistee tasked with loading tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles onto the ...

One person was killed and two others were injured when a freight train collided with a landscaping truck Thursday morning in Elgin in Chicago's northwest suburbs. Police said, around 6:30 a.m., a ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that rehabilitation of a crossing by Norfolk Southern railroad on Illinois 157 between Illinois 13 and Chase Lane in St. Clair County will require a ...

MANKATO — The economy of the Mankato area relies heavily on freight trains to ship its products to market, and the city should be a priority when considering future investments in passenger trains, ...