To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

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 ...

One person is dead and two others were injured Thursday morning when a Union Pacific freight train engine collided with a landscaping truck at the State Street crossing in Elgin. State Street in Elgin ...

Railroad giants Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern formally sought federal approval Friday for a seismic merger that would change how freight moves across the region and continent. “This is huge,” the ...

A plan to build the first transcontinental freight railroad in the U.S. is putting a spotlight on a chokepoint in American rail shipping. Today, no single railroad controls tracks from the West Coast ...