Trains

Good things come to those who wait and that apparently includes trains as there is much rejoicing about a new service connecting Minnesota and Illinois that took 12 years to get done.

Sometimes a train will block a railroad crossing, that's just how it goes. Here is what you should and should NOT do if that happens to you.

Experience Indiana in a new way by paddling the Ohio River and riding back on the Scenic Ohio Railway.

A Nashville museum specializes in offering train excursions--there are many themed trips, too--through middle Tennessee.

Sometimes a train will block a railroad crossing, that's just how it goes. Here is what you should and should NOT do if that happens to you.

When you're hiking through the woods, you don't expect to find a train there. But, that's exactly what happened in northern Illinois recently and I've learned this locomotive is almost 100 years old.

There's something oddly satisfying about watching a snow drift get completely clobbered by a train. Don't think so? Watch this and see if it changes your mind.

Someone in the Windy City is in a very festive mood. The Chicago Transit Authority has a train that may very well be the Illinois version of The Polar Express.

There's a reason why this Illinois train sat abandoned for many years just outside of O'Hare Airport in Chicago. It has a sad history dating back to a tragedy in Downer's Grove, Illinois 30 years ago.

After living in Florida for a year, I really began to appreiciate the changing of the seasons. Growing up in the Midwest, I expect to play in the snow in the winter, watch football -sitting on bleachers  while drinking hot chocolate while wrapped in a blanket in the fall, smell the flowers blooming in the Spring and sweat my butt off in the Summer. The beauty of the seasons is undeniable and I fee