The Surface Transportation Board has denied Metra’s request for a temporary injunction or emergency service order protecting ...

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 ...

Evanston Metra riders face uncertainty as a dispute between Metra and Union Pacific Railroad over track rights payment ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.

“Union Pacific” will be phased out of line names. “Renaming the three UP lines presents Metra with an opportunity to reconsider all its line names, which follow no logical or consistent ...

The Surface Transportation Board has ordered BNSF Railway and Union Pacific to participate in a technical conference next ...