Stadler US will use ABB traction converters and batteries for the new trainsets it is building for Metra commuter rail in Chicago and for future Valley Rail passenger service between Merced and ...

Metra on March 18 detailed its program for the 2025 construction season, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and ...

The next Glen Ellyn village president will have a say in a number of big-ticket projects in the works or under review — a ...

The transit agencies came up with the doomsday models at the RTA’s behest, responding to calls from Springfield legislators ...

The parent agency for mass transit in the Chicago region says it needs help from Springfield. And fast. Driving the news: RTA ...

Amtrak uses a single boarding holding area ... operate on Amtrak’s long-distance trains and offer larger windows (albeit dirty) and second-level seating. The downside is this equipment does ...

An elevated CTA train. The region’s public transit agencies ... It’s generally a sound bill, just not the one riders, public transit operators and the region need most. Without tackling ...

That agreement, one of several recent short-term extensions of a contract dating to 2010, expires June 30. UP has previously said it expected the transfer of operations to take place in April [see “UP ...

“We did have teething issues, probably created by me,” he said during the meeting today (March 12, 2025) at Metra headquarters ... getting onto trains at station where there were now two tracks and ...

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