Train heists are occurring more often as thieves go after rail cars of valuable cargo. In the old West, robbers went after cash, from passengers or payroll bags.

It's an iconic image of the Old West: masked desperados on horseback chasing down a speeding train to rob its passengers and cargo. In fact there really were hundreds of train robberies in the ...

But Union Station’s reach is far more extensive, in a psychic sense, than just being the Western United States’ most-trafficked transit hub: That’s because the 1930s-era train station, and ...