To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

One person was killed and two others were injured when a freight train collided with a landscaping truck Thursday morning in Elgin in Chicago's northwest suburbs. Police said, around 6:30 a.m., a ...

Currently, Norfolk Southern and CSX serve the eastern U.S. while Union Pacific and BNSF serve the west, and the two major Canadian rails compete where they can with their tracks crossing Canada and ...

Railroad giants Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern formally sought federal approval Friday for a seismic merger that would change how freight moves across the region and continent. “This is huge,” the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A train derailed in western Colorado on Tuesday, crashing into the Gunnison River south of Grand Junction, investigators said. The Union Pacific Railroad ...

A plan to build the first transcontinental freight railroad in the U.S. is putting a spotlight on a chokepoint in American rail shipping. Today, no single railroad controls tracks from the West Coast ...