Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union Pacific and Wabash for the City of St. Louis in 1958, U.S.

On this episode, we examine how far high speed rail has come in Illinois. With 110 mile per hour trains running between ...

Prior to the inception of Amtrak, freight rail companies like the Pennsylvania Railroad and Illinois Central were required to provide passenger service. As rail travel dipped in the post-World War ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Steel-Frame Side-Door Passenger Car Built by the Illinois Central Railroad Company ” in SA Supplements Vol. 56 No. 1448supp (October ...

Illinois officials stopped in Rockford for an update on restoration of passenger rail service. It was also to reassure skeptics this is all for real.

Funding secured for Rockford to Chicago passenger rail project, part of Illinois' $55.1 billion Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The new Illinois budget includes funding for the long-gestating Rockford to ...

A Hyde Park, Chicago event honored victims, survivors and first responders of the deadly 1972 Chicago train crash on the Illinois Central Railroad.