Over two acres of vacant land in Fairpark's Hardware District is now for sale, and the land is flanked by numerous housing ...

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 Pacific Railroad to the ...

Engine-maintenance workers at the Missouri Pacific locomotive shop in St. Louis prepare an engine after a railroad strike ended in October 1949. Steam engines needed large numbers of workers to ...

The rapid expansion of America’s railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group of powerful ...

Members of the Legislature from Southwestern Missouri, in caucus at Jefferson City last night, agreed upon a bill to be presented to the Legislature, for the sale of what is known as the Southwest ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Union Pacific's new commemorative No. 1616 Lincoln Locomotive will be coming to Springfield for a public viewing on July 1. It honors Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, in his ...

Residents and former employees recall the long-term effects the merger of the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroad companies on the city of Osawatomie.

Anyone attending the Durham Museum south of Omaha’s Old Market will be near the one-mile marker for the Union Pacific ...

The Missouri River Railroad, now operated in connection with the Missouri Pacific, continues that line up the river to Leavenworth ; and the Missouri River, Port Scott, and Gulf Railroad, running ...

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

This article was originally published with the title “Missouri Pacific Railroad” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 7 No. 13 (December 1851), p. 97 doi:10.1038 ...