Amtrak has pre-departure lounges — dubbed the Metropolitan Lounge — at select train stations nationwide. Until recently, ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern's merger could streamline freight through Chicago — or sideline it. Here's what’s at stake ...

Amtrak is now offering a single-visit pass to coach passengers at its Metropolitan lounge, for $50 at New York’s Moynihan ...

According to recently published statements made by Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena, we need a transcontinental rail merger to ...

A train operated by Canadian Pacific has derailed in a suburb of Chicago. Two of the train’s cars came off the tracks around 12:45 p.m. Sunday in Franklin Park, which is about four miles south ...

The RTA can't order the individual transit agencies to raise fares, but it can reject their budgets. To address the looming ...

Train surfing has led to multiple deaths elsewhere in U.S. A man was caught on video surfing on a Red Line train in Chicago. As CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports, subway surfing has become a crisis ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- New York City just announced a bold new plan to install platform doors in its subway system - a barrier to keep people off the tracks. Now some are asking, why can't the Chicago ...

Chicago commuter train crashes into rail equipment, nearly 40 injured, some seriously By The Associated Press Updated November 16, 2023, 9:33 p.m.

The Chicago Transit Authority train crashed into snow-removal equipment just before 10:35 a.m. on the city’s North Side near the Howard CTA station, the Chicago Fire Department said.

Sun-Times reporter Sophie Sherry and transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman appeared on WBEZ’s Reset to talk about the recent CTA Yellow Line crash and what it means for train safety.