Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

A group of people who gathered in 1994 at Chicago’s historic Union Station weren’t there to take the train. They were there to talk trains, and ended up making a bit of history themselves. It was the ...

Transcontinental rail passengers have finally been granted the privilege a pig has; they will not have to change trains in Chicago. Under the needling of Chesapeake & Ohio’s Bob Young (“a hog can ...