The person was struck by inbound train No. 26 about 7:40 a.m., the official said. The train, which was stopping at the ...

News & Products for the week of February 17th 2025 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by ...

Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, the lines south and southwest of St. Louis, and the lines in Texas and ...

But what is known — and what railroad devotees soon revealed ... serviced Prairie Home south of Waverly on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, a now-defunct line that once cut through ...

An article in the Sunday, Feb. 26, 1888, St. Louis Post-Dispatch described the women who "manage large estates and look after ...

The bridges include 11 on the Union Pacific North Line in Chicago and others on the Milwaukee District and Rock Island lines. Metra Director and Finance Chairman Ken Koehler recalled a railway ...

In the early 1890s, the debate over which port should become the official Port of Los Angeles centered around Santa Monica, ...

A typical example is Downing Bland Jenks, trail-blazing 41-year-old boss of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Says he: “You don’t have to look 50 or 100 years ahead to see what ...

I like every type of train journey, from luxury long-distance trips to short, scenic jaunts on public transport. Here are my ...

Missouri Pacific locomotives, both steam and diesel, display a variety typical of their era. The “MoPac,” as it was called, ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...