CHICAGO (WLS) -- The CTA broke ground Thursday on a rail car facility on the city's Southeast Side, creating more than 300 new jobs. It's located on South Torrence Avenue near East 136th Street.

Next stop: Farrabut North? Woodlley Park? A model for a new Metro car features these misspellings now, but Metro assures riders that we'll face no such embarrassments in the sleek cars themselves next ...

Metro riders will be able to give their input into the design of the next generation of rail cars. The agency plans to ask riders via consumer research and outreach about wall and floor covering ...

It could be the start of a new era at Metro. On Wednesday, WMATA showed off a full-scale mockup of one of its new 7000-series rail cars, the biggest visual upgrade since the system opened in the late ...

Metro riders who saw the new designs for the transit agency’s next generation rail cars last week may have been impressed with the rubber floors, the cool blue hues and LED lighting. But the ...

Metro is a little closer to getting its troubled 7000-series railcars back on the tracks. "Oh, that would be heaven," one rider said Tuesday night. "I would absolutely go bananas." The transit ...

Kawasaki is adding almost 100 jobs at its rail-car manufacturing plant in Lincoln as a whole new train of its 7000-series of cars started up in the District of Columbia this week, and the plant ramps ...