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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, ...

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 ...

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 ...