On April 3, neighbors supporting building a landscaped greenway down the old Rock Island railroad right of way gathered at the City Yard. Among those briefing the neighbors were city parks ...

The historic achievement or running a railroad to the Mississippi River, celebrated by the Grand Excursion in 1854, will be forever memorialized in the film “The Rock Island Trail.” ...

On the Rock Island Line, workers are about to begin replacing 16,562 ties and 22,666 feet of rail between Mokena and Joliet, it said. Metra forces will replace 37,062 ties and 18,920 feet of rail ...

Rock Island Amtrak project: Adding a third track from the Gresham stop to 17th Street would boost train capacity along the line. Along with Amtrak, Metra is also planning to upgrade five rail ...

Metra on April 3 detailed its construction program for 2024, covering station, track, road crossing, bridge, and signal/communications improvement projects along the Chicagoland commuter railroad’s 11 ...

The reunion gathers families who immigrated from Mexico to Horton, Kansas, to work for the Rock Island Lines railroad. Many later followed the railroad to the Quad-Cities.

A man trying to catch a Metra Rock Island Line train was struck and killed Friday morning in Midlothian.

Metra Rock Island Line train carrying hundreds of passengers derails in South Loop Inbound service suspended until Tuesday; limited outbound service Monday evening: Metra ...

The Rock Island Trail now under construction intends to join up with the Katy Trail (shown). In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it ...

Officials of the Central Arkansas offices of the Rock Island Lines said Friday that about 130 of its hourly employees had already agreed to "loan" the company 10 per cent of their wages for at ...