Amtrak

Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak train derailment in Montana say the track had been bent along a curve near the accident site and the problem had been getting worse as freight trains traveled over it before the derailment. Details on the bent track were included in hundreds of pages of investigative documents released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety...

Passengers spent over 36 hours on a train when a freight car derailment stopped Amtrak Auto Train 53 in North Carolina overnight.

Passengers hoping to use Amtrak for their holiday travel are feeling the effects of a winter storm that’s hammering a good portion of the country, with trains traveling to and from Chicago impacted by the weather.

Hundreds of flights were canceled in Chicago Thursday as a winter storm brought snow, high winds and plummeting temperatures to the area. Regina Waldroup reports.

A person is dead after his car was struck by an Amtrak train in southeastern Wisconsin on Thursday evening.

What was supposed to be a 5 1/2-hour rail trip from Detroit to Chicago turned into a 19-hour ordeal for passengers on an Amtrak train that lost power, leaving them without light, heat or running toilets. Wolverine Train 351 left Pontiac about 6 a.m. EDT Friday. Some passengers were so frustrated that they got off the train well before it…

Metra, who is not part of the labor dispute, had prepared for a potential rail worker strike by pre-emptively canceling Thursday evening service across 4 busy commuter lines that travel to and from Chicago and the suburbs.

A potentially devastating and disruptive freight rail way worker strike has been averted —for now — and a “tentative” railway labor agreement between labor unions and railroad companies has been reached, the White House said early Thursday, just one day before Friday’s deadline. Sandra Torres has more.

While the tentative agreement averts a potential strike Friday, it isn’t a done deal yet — and some busy Chicago-area commuter and long distance lines on Metra and Amtrak remain disrupted Thursday.

Amtrak has canceled all long-distance trains nationwide starting Thursday, as it prepares for a possible freight-rail strike that would impact its service.

Here’s a breakdown of how a freight rail worker strike would affect thousands of suburban Metra commuters, Amtrak passengers, and the many Chicago residents who don’t travel by train.

Metra and Amtrak riders will feel big impacts if freight rail worker strike later this week, a move that would affect thousands of daily train travelers. Kate Chappell reports.

The move would affect thousands of daily commuters who travel by train to and from Chicago and the suburbs.

In a move to prevent train passengers from being stranded, Amtrak on Monday said that it would pre-emptively cancel three long-distance train routes as an impending freight rail worker strike threatens to disrupt both train travelers and consumers. Lisa Chavarria has more.

As freight rail workers threaten to strike, Amtrak cancels 3 routes that originate in Chicago. But train travelers wouldn’t be the only ones impacted by a work stoppage.

The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others.

Trains operating on Metra’s Milwaukee District North Line resumed with delays Friday night after an Amtrak train struck a pedestrian in Glenview, the transit agency tweeted.

The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday, surviving passenger Janet Williams of Dubuque, Iowa, named Amtrak, BNSF Railway Co. and MS Contracting LLC, the employer of the dump truck driver whose vehicle was...

A look back at the top news headlines for this week in news with Kye Martin.

Authorities on Wednesday identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri, saying two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri.