A freight train is said to be "in compliance" when it's assembled properly and is operating according to the railroad's rules. In practice, crews need to devote as much attention to the big ...

It took 90 months for the China - Europe freight trains to complete their first 10,000 trips, but only six months to go from 100,000 to 110,000.

The investigation forced trains on the UP-W line to stop for a time, but were moving again later in the morning. Metra warned that trains operated out of sequence and with intermittent stopping ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are moving to create the first coast-to-coast freight rail operator in US history, announcing an $85 billion merger that, if approved, would link 50,000 miles of ...

Metra trains were backed up Friday afternoon near La Grange after a freight train struck a semitruck. Trains in both directions on the Metra BNSF line were delayed when another train hit a vehicle ...