WASHINGTON — Shortline company Chicago Rock Island & Pacific will take over as contract operator of 2.6 miles of trackage in California’s Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, according to a notice of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Hundreds of passengers were evacuated after a Metra Rock Island train car derailed in Chicago Monday morning. The derailment occurred near Clark and 13th streets in the South Loop at ...

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Service is beginning to resume after a Metra train on the system's Rock Island line derailed Monday morning. According to an 8:41 a.m. tweet from Metra, the derailment occurred on inbound train No.

MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. — A Metra train struck a vehicle in Midlothian Tuesday morning. The accident involving Metra Rock Island train No. 400 happened around 5 a.m. at 149th Street and Pulaski Road. No word ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Metra Rock Island inbound and outbound train traffic was halted in the city due to the derailment of train No. 704 on Monday. The first car behind the locomotive appeared to derail at ...

Celebrated in history and song, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company-- the Rock Island Line-- was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states with its fast ...

The Rock Island District line will not run your way today. The line will be closed while crews from Canadian National work to replace tracks. All Rock Island trains will instead run to and from New ...