Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

A sweeping bill overhauling public transportation in Illinois included more than just operations funding and governance ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Rock Island County Board unanimously ...

A recently-approved statewide transit bill could revive a passenger rail line between Chicago and the Quad Cities. After more than four decades, the long-dormant passenger rail line between Chicago ...

NEW LENOX, Ill. (WLS) -- A Metra train hit a 10-year-old boy on a bike in the south suburbs on Monday evening, causing extensive delays, officials said. Metra said Rock Island inbound and outbound ...

Even idling outside the depot in Davenport, Iowa, the Rock Island passenger train must have seemed like a living, breathing thing to the 5-year-old boy. The great locomotive hissed and rumbled as ...

The second day of holiday fares to the Southeast yesterday was marked by special trains east on both the Rock Island and Iron Mountain. The travel out of Little Rock was exceptionally heavy and a big ...

The Rock Island County Board unanimously approved a resolution this week in support of the Chicago-to-Moline passenger rail initiative currently under consideration by the Governor and Illinois ...

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