The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.

Big Boy No. 4014, described as "the Elvis Presley of locomotives," could begin its first ever coast-to-coast tour in just a matter of weeks.

In 1912, Kansas City, Missouri, became the first city in the U.S. to arrest people for jaywalking. Fueled by auto industry ...

Call it fate, good or bad luck, divine timing, or a glitch in the matrix. Sometimes people end up in situations completely ...

There’s something about winter in Illinois from a train seat. These routes make snowy landscapes feel calm, cinematic, and ...

A man accused of killing another passenger in a weekend stabbing on a Chicago train allegedly recorded the attack and its aftermath on his cellphone, according to prosecutors. FOX 32 Chicago reported ...

A man was stabbed on a CTA Red Line train along the Dan Ryan Expressway early Sunday morning.

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A maniac allegedly recorded himself fatally stabbing a sleeping train passenger on the same Chicago Transit Authority line 26-year-old where Bethany MaGee was set on fire by a lunatic with a extensive ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police have issued an alert over an armed robbery on a CTA Blue Line train. The incident occurred on a CTA Blue Line train at about 7:40 p.m. in the 500-block of South Kedzie ...

From Valentine’s charcuterie journeys to rom-com trivia and quiet reading cars, the Nickel Plate Express makes rail travel feel magical.

In a journey of just five miles in the city of Chicago, the housing thins out, the shopping fades and you step into a neighborhood where residents' lives are, on average, 20 years shorter than those ...