The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the final report for its investigation of the July 6, 2024, ...

The probable cause of a July 2024 fatal collision at Union Pacific’s Proviso Yard was an inexperienced conductor’s failure to ...

At Union Pacific Corp.’s Proviso Yard in suburban Melrose Park, a score of red and yellow locomotives stand outside a sprawling maintenance and repair building, their mammoth engines idling.

Union Pacific, which 10 years ago broke new ground in locomotive technology by working with a major supplier to develop a Genset locomotive for yard service, on Dec. 12 unveiled one of seven ultra-low ...

She noted that some Butler Yard jobs will be sent to Chicago's Proviso Yard. Positive Train Control is a system designed to automatically halt trains before certain accidents can happen, according ...

One of the standout images in “Railroaders: Jack Delano’s Homefront Photography” is of a lone, faceless rail man—back to the camera, his all-denim outfit stamped with grime—as he leans ...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. - A Union Pacific Railroad employee died in an incident early Saturday morning at the Proviso Yard in Melrose Park. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. at the railyard located ...

A near-sub-zero Chicago suburb seems like an unlikely place to find railroad cars full of Mexican beer. But, on any given night at Proviso Yard in Northlake, Illinois, the on-duty conductors are ...