Commuter service for thousands of Union Pacific riders is in jeopardy amid an impasse with the freight railroad over track ...

Talk of Burlington Northern passenger trains inevitably conjures visions of green E units toting bilevel stainless steel ...

Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger ...

A January report from the Federal Railroad Administration recommends restoring Amtrak routes across the West, including ...

The long-standing legal battle over the railroad company's shop stems from an 1872 agreement that kept operations planted in ...

Metra is considering renaming all of its lines, as the rail agency prepares ... lines to the commuter railroad. For decades, Metra paid Union Pacific to operate passenger service on the three ...

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. Some new ...

Union Pacific Railroad owns those lines and has historically operated them with its own employees, but UP no longer wants to run passenger trains. Metra has been hiring many of UP's workers and ...

In the latest twist in Union Pacific’s long-running effort to exit Chicago commuter rail operations, commuter agency Metra ...

Union Pacific Railroad has notified employees in the East Texas town of Palestine that their jobs — kept in place by an 1872 ...