CHICAGO (CBS ... which is now the iconic Loop; and the Northwestern "L," which now makes up part of the Brown, Purple and Red Lines. Today, the CTA's train system spans nearly 225 miles of ...

More than a score of northwest and north Chicago ... and North Western Railway will be able to view a sight from a bygone era on Wednesday, July 10, when an old-fashioned circus train, pulled ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A person is dead after being struck by a CSX train in Chicago Sunday afternoon ... from the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University.

"For me, riding the el is in many ways better than a roller coaster ride," Greg Borzo (GJ85) says of traveling on Chicago's elevated trains. A daily el commuter for the past 25 years, Borzo decided to ...

On Oct. 25, 1848, the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad dispatched ... of running its Milwaukee to St. Paul passenger trains over tracks the Northwestern owned. By the time of his death, Ogden ...

SHEBOYGAN - Nearly 115 years ago in 1906, when rail travel was in its heyday, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad built a new handsome brick depot in Sheboygan. In those days passenger trains ...