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Members of the Henderson Lions Club say Allen Brown II, President and CEO of Railmark Holdings Inc., spoke to the club on ...
(WIFR) - A record-setting $55.2 billion Illinois state budget for fiscal year 2026 reinforces plans for Rockford’s long-awaited passenger rail project. Under the new budget, state leaders say they ...
More than a century later, Illinois Central Railroad had abandoned the train tracks and decided to sell the land to people who had property situated on part of the right of way surrounding the ...
A Casper man’s lifelong passion for railroading led to a career as a passenger train conductor. The 82-year-old loves trains ...
After years of negotiations, Union Pacific Railroad has given Metra an ultimatum: Compromise on fees to use UP tracks or face ...
The father of a 17-year-old girl hit and killed by a Metra train in Barrington, Illinois, last year says his grief will never go away — and he is ramping up his fight to keep other students safe.
Most model railroaders strive for accuracy in the construction of their model railroad layout ... railroad that includes passenger operations. Types of Passenger Trains High-profile long-distance ...
Two people are dead after a vehicle crashed into a tractor-trailer following an armed robbery in southern Illinois on Thursday ... dead at the scene. The passenger, whose identity has yet to ...
What does an area roughly 1,000 miles away have to do with us? Think back a couple of years ago when central Illinois endured several days of smoke and haze from Canadian wildfires. The starting ...
A Massachusetts-based transportation advocacy group wants to get commuters to and from the two cities in as little as 25 minutes by extending a passenger rail line from New London to Brattleboro ...
Operated daily by Amtrak under contracts with Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, Borealis ridership ... with Washington, DC, via a new two-track railroad bridge, dedicated solely to passenger rail.