The January 2026 issue of Trains Magazine includes author Greg Richardson’s article on the development of positive train ...

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Metra trains on the Union Pacific Northwest train were halted during the afternoon rush Wednesday after a train hit a car on Chicago's Northwest Side. The train hit the car at the Bryn Mawr crossing, ...

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The administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration sent a letter to Union Pacific last week blasting the rail line for not keeping up with safety concerns. In a letter obtained by the Associated ...

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 ...

Safety and public lands advocates have long called for a trail to Mossbrae Falls so hikers aren’t tempted to access the natural wonder via dangerous train tracks. “Each month that goes by without a ...