Amtrak to add second daily train between Twin Cities and Chicago, via Milwaukee The additional service starts at St. Paul’s Union Depot on May 21 ...

An Amtrak train, the Empire Builder, makes a single daily round-trip through the Twin Cities to Chicago. Transit advocates have long advocated for a second train on the same route, a proposal that ...

The TCMC Second Train would add another daily round-trip passenger train between Union Depot and Chicago Union Station. Top speed is 79 mph, and it is expected to carry 124,000 passengers annually.

Chicago could become the central hub of a high-speed rail network for the Midwest with trains rolling out at over 125 miles per hour to St. Paul, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Detroit.

CHICAGO — There’s another Twin Cities. No, we’re not here to tell you about the two Kansas Cities or Dallas-Fort Worth. Not Texarkana-Texarkana — though if you know about those ...