The cross-state route followed by the modern Amtrak passenger and Union Pacific freight trains sent the first commercial passenger, freight and mail trains through from St. Louis to Kansas City 150 ...

The opulence of the Missouri Pacific Railroad station greeted guests and newcomers to Jefferson City at the turn of the 20th century. As a 7-year-old who relocated to Jefferson City due to her ...

BUSH, Ill. • The engineer eased open the throttle of old No. 124, bound for the Dupo yard. The grimy, hissing machine lurched forward at the head of a funeral train. The locomotive was one of the ...

Multiple railroad crossings in Johnson County, Missouri, are closed after 32 Union Pacific rail cars and a locomotive ...

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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. "Forty years of ...

Multiple railroad crossings in Johnson County, Missouri, are closed after 32 Union Pacific rail cars and a locomotive derailed early Friday morning.