The town’s start is closely linked to the Missouri Pacific railroad tracks that run through the area. “A long time ago there was a store called Turner Store,” said Randy Bremer, owner of the ...

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — On Tuesday, residents of Osawatomie, Kansas, took a walk through their town history with the 30-minute stop of Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive.

Lucile Morris Upton and newspaper photographer Betty Love rode one of the last passenger trains from Missouri to Arkansas in 1960.