When you board an American long-distance train, you are trading airport routine for entry into a locomotive-driven realm ...

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If Union Pacific’s merger is approved, it could gain control of train operators who’ve been hauling freight across Chicago ...

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A CTA Brown Line train hit a car in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood.

CHICAGO (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack, alleging he poured gasoline on a woman and chased her through a Chicago train car before setting her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aboard Amtrak's Southwest Chief train from Los Angeles to Chicago. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) We were well into ...