The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

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

The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) of Central Oklahoma wins a USDOT grant to evaluate at-grade crossings along a ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The Trans-Florida Central Railroad Trail project continues to grow, with the next 3-mile section of the ...

A winter storm is headed to Central Illinois on Wednesday, bringing the chance for more than 4 inches of snow in some areas, ...

While a storm system moving through the area this weekend will bring some freezing drizzle to the area on Saturday, the systems that follow will stand a better chance of bringing accumulating snow to ...

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To commemorate this monumental milestone, Central Railway is set ... known as EMU -Electric Multiple Unit- in railway lingo), operating on a 1500V DC system marked the beginning of a significant ...

CARMI, Il. (WEVV) — Multiple streets are closed in Carmi, Illinois following a fatal train versus pedestrian accident Monday morning. Carmi Police Department reports that the railroad crossing at ...

(WAND) - Conditions will turn icy across Central Illinois today. Light freezing drizzle will develop this morning across our southern hometowns. It'll build into freezing rain as it moves ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...