Check out the all-new ScaleTrains HO EMD GP40 diesel locomotive in our latest product review video. Model Railroader Senior ...

The inbound Union Pacific North Line train at the Davis Street Metra station in 2024. Thirty years after the Metra line that ...

Dick Davidson looks back on his life with a touch of amazement and a hefty helping of gratitude. At age 83, he still marvels ...

Chicago is known as the United States' railroad capital ... the U.S. The Adler Planetarium was the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. It opened on May 12, 1930. The Water Tower was ...

360 Chicago, the observation deck high above Michigan Avenue, is offering free admission to Chicago residents all week long. On Tuesday, the 94th floor Skydeck Chicago at 875 North Michigan is ...

and partial ownership of Chicago & North Western. By 1990 UP was almost as big as BN. The proposed Southern Pacific-Santa Fe merger would have created a three-railroad situation between the Midwest ...

All Burlington Northern locomotives present here at Dilworth, Minn., the former NP facility serving Fargo-Moorhead, on May 14 ...

Find out which railroads terminated at Chicago intercity passenger terminals, and which of these stations are still standing ...

Wilmington & Western Railroad is shutting down to make repairs to its historic trains, but its general manager is confident this isn't the end of the line. On Feb. 26, the attraction announced it ...

Kenliada Maressa Porter, 32, was fatally shot at a River North hotel Saturday night ... with gunshot wounds to her back and right shoulder, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner ...

The Wilmington & Western Railroad scenic passenger railway has announced a stop in train service for the 2025 season. The news of a "pause" in operations as of Feb. 25 was posted on the train’s ...

The Wilmington & Western Railroad scenic passenger railway has announced a stop in train service for the 2025 season. The news of a "pause" in operations as of Feb. 25 was posted on the train’s ...