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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The patients arrive in various states of disrepair, their bodies battered and scarred, their innards groaning from a variety of ailments. Six months later, after extensive treatment, they emerge as ...

A locomotive used to take President George H.W. Bush to his final resting place has a Wisconsin connection. A train engine pained to mimic the design of Air Force One dubbed ” Bush 4141 ” was painted ...