Imagine a train ride, rolling across the countryside, through the mountain passes, and through historic towns.  While these images may be what Americans commonly experienced when traveling 100 years ...

Sometimes the most interesting places are the ones that don’t advertise on every billboard between here and the state line. The Belton, Grandview and Kansas City Railroad in Belton, Missouri is one of ...

Few Americans know that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was the first freight railroad to lay tracks west of the Mississippi.

What started as a dedication to the Mineola railroad museum housed inside the Amtrak train station morphed into more of a ...

One of my most surprising travels ever was to Bismarck, North Dakota. Surprising in a good way, that is. I had anticipated ...

In the professional paper "Temperance and Prohibition in America: A Historical Overview," Paul Aaron and David Musto ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Mo. (KCTV) - Three years after a new law went into effect penalizing school employees for giving students “obscene materials,” a Jackson County judge has ruled in favor of Missouri ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

People trying to cross the railroad tracks at West Third Street between Lincoln and Van Buren streets in Eugene found a train blocking their path the morning of Nov. 6. The train stopped to avoid a ...

Union Pacific Chief Executive Jim Vena defended the railroad's merger on an earnings call Thursday. (Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg News) Union Pacific defended its proposed $71.5 billion railroad merger ...

The Center for Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has completed a year-long project to preserve and digitize nearly 800 historic maps, thanks to a $15,000 grant ...

CSX railroad announced Monday that it had replaced its CEO less than two months after an investment fund urged it to either find another railroad to merge with to better compete with the proposed ...