The biggest operating steam locomotive in the world will stop in Illinois this week. Here's when and where to catch the "Big ...

The world's biggest steam train will pass through Springfield as it travels the US to celebrate America's 250th birthday. Here's where to see it ...

Editor’s note: The video above captured Big Boy No. 4014 in Illinois during a prior visit. All-aboard: A one-million-pound ...

An intersection is Posen, Illinois, is blocked to all traffic after a freight train derailment Thursday morning.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - A Dubuque group is working to reinstate passenger rail service connecting Chicago to Dubuque, hoping to transform the more than three-hour drive into a train ride. Paul Uzel, a ...

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker disclosed earlier this month that his administration seeks to commit almost $1 billion of planned 2026-2031 infrastructure spending to several languishing passenger ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...