Metra riders could get a push from a fleet of previously used locomotives the agency is eying to purchase this year. Metra directors Wednesday authorized executives to negotiate buying up to 21 ...

CHICAGO (CBS 58) – New locomotives are now serving Amtrak customers in Illinois and Wisconsin, with the U.S.-built, Midwest-powered, Amtrak-maintained units slated to operate on state-sponsored ...

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When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, ...

Smoke rises from the stack of Mount Emily Shay No. 1 in the mid-2010s near Prineville. The steam-powered locomotive, which was used for logging operations in Union County for three decades, in 2024 ...

The battery-electric locomotives will be used as part of a new service that will bring Metro North’s New Haven Line directly ...

I suspect that if you were to ask a random person when demolition derbies first started, most people would probably pause for a moment before asking you to drive them to the nearest library, where ...