Retired Amtrak conductor Brad Swartzwelter has achieved minor celebrity since a story on his truck-by-train rail bridge idea ...

First of two parts Before jets dominated air travel and a fully developed, publicly funded interstate highway system ...

The work became a matter of “stewardship” of what they call “the Ellis Island of the West,” where thousands of immigrants ...

Union Pacific (UP) on March 27 announced that it has entered into an agreement with Jaguar Transport Holdings LLC to provide short line rail service in the Central Industrial District in Kansas City, ...

“For the first time since before the Civil War, passenger rail service on the UP Lines may end.” Metra warned Union Pacific could try to end commuter rail service on its lines after an ...

Union Pacific owns the infrastructure and has provided service with its own employees but no longer wants to run passenger trains. Metra has been hiring many of UP’s workers and this spring will ...

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 ...

and that commuter rail service on the UP lines is threatened as a result, Union Pacific has refused to budge,” attorneys said. “For the first time since before the Civil War, passenger rail ...

and Union Pacific service from Portland to Seattle. When Amtrak began on May 1, 1971, several hundred passenger trains were canceled, and the nation was left with minimal service. Major cities ...