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, ...

Metra has argued that Union Pacific is seeking an increase of than 100% in fees to use its lines, while doing less than it did under the longstanding Purchase of Service Agreement, under which UP ...

Metra lines could be set for new names, as the agency prepares to take over Union Pacific routes. But first, Metra and Union Pacific must resolve a compensation dispute.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...