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

A derailed freight train at 123rd Street on the city's Far South Side is causing delays on the Rock Island Metra Line that travels to and from Joliet.

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 ...

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 ...

"This richly illustrated volume tells the story of a legendary railroad whose tracks spanned the Midwest, serving farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to ...

The east side was the center of railroading and what once was billed as the world's largest railroad roundhouse, owned by the Rock Island Line.

The bridge used to form part of the now-defunct Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, also known as the Rock Island Line, from which it gets its name.

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 ...