Missouri Pacific caboose helps share story of Russellville’s railroad legacy. October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m. | Updated October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m.

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 9. At a meeting yesterday of the Directors of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company a proposition was submitted by the Atlantic and pacific Company to surrender the Missouri ...

The Pacific Railroad, forerunner of the Missouri Pacific, fired up its first locomotive in St. Louis in 1852. Its tracks never reached the Pacific Ocean, but the system eventually connected St ...

An invitation from Jefferson City for the passengers who took the first Pacific Railroad train from St. Louis on Nov. 1, 1855. Several hundred people waited in Jefferson City to greet the train ...

(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 489 ff.) An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. . . . Be it enacted, That [names of ...

In 1872, the railroads promised to keep operations in Palestine forever. Those railroads later became part of the Missouri Pacific railroad that was bought by Union Pacific in 1997.

Railroad Park in downtown Russellville serves as a open-air museum of sorts, preserving the community’s rich legacy as a stop along the former Bagnell Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.