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It’s the end of the line for Rochelle rail car maker Nippon Sharyo. It appears the company is shuttering its Illinois plant.In 2012, the announcement that…
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UPDATE, 11:00 a.m. 7/1/17: Most roads have reopened in Plainfield after a train carrying crude oil derailed about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.Plainfield…
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Anywhere you go in America, you are never far from railroad tracks. Someone has to maintain all of those tracks. And someone has to build the machines to…
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The man behind an $8-billion plan to route train traffic around Chicago met with the public in a forum in Grundy County Monday night. Great Lakes Basin…
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Last year, 269 people were killed in the US at rail crossings. 40% of those happened in just five states…and Illinois is one of them.The rail safety group…
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A railcar factory in Rochelle hit a major milestone Tuesday -- it completed its one-thousandth passenger rail car since opening in 2012. Nippon Sharyo…
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It's time to ride the rails with Free Range Radio as we celebrate National Train Day. We'll travel the country with the folks at "Hearing Voices," chat…
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The Illinois Tollway Authority now has state approval to consider adding rail service on its property. But supporters of the new law say it would probably…
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A host of public officials and hundreds of invited guests came to Rochelle Thursday to mark the grand opening of Japanese company Nippon Sharyo’s new rail…