According to a Metra social media post, BNSF train #1276 was traveling inbound from the western suburbs to Union Station when ...

A brawl broke out on a Metra Union Pacific-North train Thursday night near Wilmette after Windy City Smokeout came to an abrupt end due to weather.

A pedestrian was struck and killed Friday evening by an inbound Metra BNSF train at a Brookfield intersection near a suburban ...

Savage recalled a Metra train striking a concrete truck and flames engulfing one car on May 13, 2011, in Mount Prospect. The truck driver died and 26 passengers were taken to hospitals to be treated.

In 2015, the U.S. rail system experienced 358 suicide incidents — its highest recorded number — which included 328 fatalities and 30 injuries, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Landsberg said the crossing handles 150 trains daily, around a hundred of them Metra commuter trains. The last fatal accident at the Prospect Avenue crossing was in 2017, when a pedestrian was killed.

Family mourns beloved matriarch who was killed in Clarendon Hills Metra train crash 02:44. CLARENDON HILLS, Ill. (CBS) --An attorney for the family of a 72-year-old woman who was killed when the ...

I was just 50 ft away from one of the worst accidents I’ve ever seen Metra train hit a semi & exploded. Most of us got out of the way in time but several people did not make it ...

A spokesperson for Metra described what was shot as the tail-end of a safety check. Metra said, earlier in the day, someone reported the crossing bar was down with no trains in sight.

National Transportation Safety Board authorities are investigating Metra's first passenger death since 2005 after a train collided with a truck Wednesday at a crossing in Clarendon Hills.

Outdated trains have left the MBTA facing safety concerns after multiple incidents involving doors on the Green and Red Line, officials told the MBTA Board of Directors Thursday. MBTA Chief Safety ...

A rail safety expert analyzes some of the videos that are part of the Federal Transit Administration's investigation into the MBTA. Skip to content NOWCAST NewsCenter 5 at 11 ...