BELLWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- It's the type of crime that spans nearly two centuries, back when the railroad was first built: thieves stealing cargo from freight trains. A Union Pacific West freight train ...

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 ...

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 ...

To make money on its proposed cross-country railroad, Union Pacific plans to double the number of trains on a 2-mile stretch of track on Chicago’s West Side where workers still throw switches by hand ...

Two of the largest US railroads, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, announced on Tuesday a plan to combine in a $72 billion deal that would create America’s first transcontinental freight railroad.

Deal would create US transcontinental freight giant STB's regulatory review expected to take 16 months after filing Trump admin's antitrust shift enables deals seen before as no-go Unions plan to ...

A man was struck and killed by a Union Pacific freight train late Thursday morning in south Modesto, authorities said. The Stanislaus County Coroner’s Office identified the man as Brandon Pierce, 51, ...

Flames from a ruptured natural gas line scorched rail cars and brought trains on one of the busiest transcontinental rail routes to a halt in Wyoming early Sunday. Freight cars were scorched on a ...

The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network, spanning 50,000 miles and 43 states. By Peter Eavis Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, announced on Tuesday that it had ...