What: Rock Island Railroad Depot Museum Where: 405 KD Ave., Eldon Hours: 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday; 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 1 to Sept. 30; tours by appointment ...

Tiny Eldon in southeast Iowa has been losing population, ... The economy grew when it became a stop for the Rock Island Company’s route between Chicago and Los Angeles and a crew change station.

Eldon formed in 1870 around a railroad depot. The economy grew when it became a stop for the Rock Island Company’s route between Chicago and Los Angeles and a crew change station. But it was after ...

Eldon Career Center students build the new Rock Island Depot in Eldon, Mo., Monday, April 26, 2021. Students are supervised by Building Trades instructor Kevin Otto. Savanna Trivers ...

One day a gentleman was sitting alone in a Mercedes in Eldon, Ia., ... 87, who was a conductor for 29 years on the old Chicago-Rock Island-Pacific line before it went silent in 1980.

The Rock Island Railroad running through Eldon hasn’t had a car run on its tracks for more than 30 years. The city of Eldon has received The Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Grant through ...

Rock Island Village offers community, medical care in Eldon. October 22, 2017 at 5:03 a.m. | Updated October 23, 2017 at 3:16 p.m.

Downtown Eldon, Iowa, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015. Tourists from all over the world travel to the small town in southern Iowa to visit the house that artist Grant Wood used in his iconic painting ...

ELDON — Chrysa Niewald has been fighting for the development of the Rock Island Trail since 2009. “I hope the trail is built so I can ride my bike on it and not my wheelchair,” Niewald said ...

In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it would take to turn the old Rock Island Railroad Line Corridor into a trail. Now, nearly 40 ...