According to Metra, the new trains will also offer low-level boarding ... Metra to retire some of its oldest railcars and diesel locomotives, which are beyond their useful life.

Extensive delays on the Milwaukee District West and North Central Service lines were "expected to last for a while," a ...

RIVER GROVE, Ill. (WLS) -- One person was killed after a Metra train struck a vehicle Tuesday morning. A North Central ...

Metra said. An ambulance and a fire engine left the scene just before 4:30 p.m. The Rock Island District Line was shut down after the crash. Trains were back running by the 5 p.m. hour.

Metra officials said UPNW train #717 was scheduled ... saying that the vehicle was wrapped around the train’s engine. “They came back and said it would be about a three-hour wait, but then ...

Trains on Metra’s Union Pacific West line are halted near Melrose Park Thursday night after a train struck a vehicle. According to the agency, trains are halted in both directions after the ...

Video obtained by FOX 32 Chicago showed flames coming from a Metra train Monday evening, causing significant delays.

Empire Builder trains scheduled to leave Union Station for Seattle at 11:05 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. on Monday have been canceled, according to Amtrak.