Freight trains have grown longer over the past two decades, blocking highways, delaying passenger trains and increasing the potential for derailments as regulatory safeguards have lagged, a new ...

Merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will create 10,000 single-line rail lanes, annually shifting 105,000 truckloads ...

WASHINGTON — Union Pacific has asked the Surface Transportation Board to deny Metra’s request that the board to settle the terms of Metra operation on three UP lines, calling it an attempt to stall UP ...

A freight train derailed in Iowa, causing about three dozen cars to pile up. The freight train operated by Union Pacific derailed around 5 p.m. local time Monday east of Glidden, Iowa, Union Pacific ...

A Union Pacific (UP) freight train derailed around 6 am Monday morning on the east end of the Steel Bridge, halting all travel across the bridge for more than four hours. While the bridge reopened to ...

Several BNSF Railway train cars carrying what appeared to be corn derailed along the border of Glacier National Park about 2 miles east of the Goat Lick area Saturday. Crews were working to right the ...

Police were investigating Tuesday after a freight train was burglarized in west suburban Bellwood, Illinois. This is far from the first time such a thing has happened. CBS Skywatch was over the scene ...

Restoration work is currently underway at full speed, but problems persist on both the up and down lines for one of eastern ...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (CBS) -- A car hauler truck hung into a railroad crossing while stuck in traffic in Plainfield early Monday evening, and ended up getting hit by a freight train. Plainfield police ...