Metra’s Southwest Service Line resumed Wednesday morning after a freight train derailment near Chicago Ridge. The 10-car derailment caused no injuries or spills but damaged tracks and signals. Crews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inbound Metra SouthWest Service train departs from Chicago Ridge, Ill., in May 2019. The train is about to cross a diamond with ...

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UPDATE: Thursday morning, following a tentative agreement reached by union workers and railroad companies, both Metra and Amtrak said all lines will run as scheduled, and that they were working to ...

WEST CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- Metra UP-W trains were not passing West Chicago after a freight train derailment Monday morning. "A train derailed on the Canadian National Railroad Tracks just north of ...

Service on the Metra BNSF line was disrupted for several hours Friday afternoon, after a freight train hit a semi-trailer truck at the station in LaGrange, Illinois. The LaGrange Police Department ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill. (WLS) -- Trains on Metra's Milwaukee-District North Line are delayed after an unoccupied vehicle was struck by a freight train near Lake Cook Road in Northbrook, Metra officials said.