For the first time in more than four decades, an Alco PA locomotive has hauled a passenger train in the United States.

This freight train was transporting rails when one of the rails shifted and obstructed the train's path, causing extensive damage to everything in its way. The incident resulted in the destruction ...

Metra BNSF trains began resuming operations Friday evening after it was disrupted in parts of the west suburbs due to a semi being struck by a freight train, officials said.

Both Bellwood and Metra police officers were investigating how someone got into the shipping containers on the freight train.

A Bellwood freight train burglary is the latest in a rise of cargo thefts statewide. Metra Union Pacific West service has since resumed Tuesday.

A driver escaped his stalled-out semi-truck moment before a freight train plowed through the intersection at U.S. 1 and Lake Washington Road.

A Union Pacific freight train struck a Cadillac at Amador Street and Cargo Way in Bayview late Thursday morning, blocking the intersection. A San Francisco police officer told witnesses on the scene ...

“Longer trains create greater safety risks.” Under Archuleta’s proposal, the maximum length of a freight train in California would be capped at 7,500 feet, about 125 60-foot-long rail cars.

Metra’s trains on the Milwaukee District North Line are halted near Lake Forest and “extensive delays anticipated” after a freight train struck a pedestrian Friday, according to Metra.

Trains on Metra's Milwaukee District North Line have been halted near Lake Forest after a freight train struck a pedestrian, Metra said.

A man was killed after he was struck by a freight train near a supermarket in Pittsfield.