A new vision for passenger rail is on track in southeastern Wisconsin. The MARK Passenger Rail Commission held its inaugural ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a transit funding bill Tuesday which will move long-awaited Moline-to-Chicago passenger rail ...

The MARK Rail Commission is studying a proposed passenger rail line to connect Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Chicago.

Southeast Wisconsin leaders will hold the first MARK Commission meeting to advance a Milwaukee Racine Kenosha passenger rail ...

The first major railroad merger in more than two decades is expected to move forward after federal regulators approved Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, but some in ...

Union Pacific says the $85 billion merger would serve the public interest and win federal approval by unclogging Chicago, the cradle of American railroading and still its biggest and most notorious ...

This structure has played a key role in the city’s involvement in the national railroad network and financial trading. Now, ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art tells the story of Mexican railroad workers in Chicago and the Midwest ...

Editor's note: West Chicago has canceled its Railroad Days Parade set for Sunday, July 10. The decision was made based on advice from West Chicago Police due to safety concerns in response to the ...

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Americans heard the first rumble of a diesel locomotive trekking across the country in May 1936, when the Santa Fe Railroad’s Super Chief passenger train began operating between Los Angeles and ...