The Metra Holiday Trains have entered the station! Trips will be offered on five rail lines this holiday season.

Chicago has depended on its trusty elevated rail system for well more than a century. Every day, some 400,000 riders board ...

Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich ...

The Milwaukee Northwestern Model Railroad Club is a group of railroad buffs who maintain and operate what we believe is the largest HO-scale railroad in a Wisconsin museum.

The romance of rail travel never quite disappeared from American culture. While highways and airports came to dominate the ...

Granite City stands proud with its industrial heritage and surprisingly affordable retirement housing. This southwestern Illinois town offers working-class charm and homes that won’t deplete your 401 ...

The California builder will fully replace the double-decked trunnion Lake Street Bascule Bridge, which runs over the Chicago ...

Emmett Till's glass-topped coffin at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture stands as a reminder of his mother's courage and the fight to preserve his story.

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

Plans for the exhibit were formed after high school students from Pilsen questioned the lack of Latino representation at the ...

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A railroad car, which once took three and a half hours to reach Jerusalem from Jaffa, finds a permanent home. Although it takes less than 30 minutes today on an electric-powered railroad train, the ...