CHICAGO — The president of a Chicago transit union said Monday there are indications that the operator dozed off before the train jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation’s … ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Metra police were asking for help from the public Tuesday in finding a man who robbed a train conductor at gunpoint on the Metra Electric Line in broad daylight downtown. At 2:07 p ...

A man wanted for the armed robbery of a Metra train conductor was taken into custody early Wednesday morning, according to police. The robbery occurred around 2:05 p.m. Tuesday as a Metra Electric ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Authorities say an Amtrak train conductor was shot at a train station in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. Naperville police say a Wisconsin man in his 70s fired from inside ...

Case was working as a conductor on a Chicago-bound Amtrak train in May when he was shot on the platform in Naperville by a passenger on board the train. Edward Klein, 79, of West Allis, Wis., has ...

The suspect sought in a Chicago train robbery has been identified as a Loyola University student recognized by his own mother, who drove him the police station to turn himself in.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Authorities say an Amtrak train conductor was shot at a train station in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. Naperville police say a Wisconsin man in his 70s fired from inside ...

John M. Barber, 77, a retired railroad conductor, was one of the first two African Americans to serve in that position for the Milwaukee Road and one of the first in the nation. A resident of Evans… ...

Metra conductors are co-pilot, navigator, flight attendant and manager, all rolled into one. They are effectively in charge of the train, but they also collect the fares.

Editor’s note: The podcast episode available above includes two stories. The first looks at why Chicago is a transit hub for the Amish. The profile of CTA conductor Michael Powell begins at 7 ...

The Nicest Train Conductor in Chicago Jim McDermott March 31, 2009 When I ride the subway to work in the morning, usually the announcements of the train conductor are either just-the-facts-ma’am ...