The Surface Transportation Board has denied Metra’s request for a temporary injunction or emergency service order protecting commuter operations on three Union Pacific lines in the Chicago area, ...

Judge pronounces common carrier obligation for “commuter rail” dead. A federal judge in Chicago handed a win to Union Pacific (UP) in its dispute with Metra, Chicagoland’s commuter railroad.The case, ...

Union Pacific and Metra are playing for extremely high stakes. Metra says the three commuter lines in dispute provided 105,000 daily passenger trips before the pandemic, more than one-third of ...

Put passengers, communities first in Metra-Union Pacific dispute The Union Pacific, which owns the tracks and pays the ticket agents and train crews under a contract with Metra, recently sent a ...

A judge says Union Pacific can stop operating the popular commuter service to Elburn, Kenosha and McHenry County. But passengers won't be affected right now.

Metra also is concerned UP plans to pull the plug on ticket agents and maintaining cars and locomotives. Union Pacific filed a federal lawsuit in December asking the courts to rule on the dispute.

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

Chicago’s Metra commuter rail agency on July 21 asked the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent Union Pacific from “taking planned steps that would degrade or ...

The train conductor ticket collection dispute between Metra and Union Pacific has arrived in court.Metra filed a breach of contract lawsuit Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court alleging Union ...

We may need it to bail out Metra, the regional rail service. The Land of Lincoln is in line for some $17 billion in spending, give or take a few bucks, with nearly $40 […] Skip to content ...