A look at rare diesel locomotives still in regular service and the dwindling fleet of these unique and historic workhorses.

The locomotive was one of the Missouri Pacific Railroad’s last 11 steam engines, all used to haul coal from Southern Illinois mines. On April 7, 1955, it led them coupled together to the ...

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.

The western bound express and eastern bound mail trains on the Missouri Pacific Railroad ran into each other twenty miles east of here to-day.

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Lucile Morris Upton and newspaper photographer Betty Love took a trip through the Missouri and Arkansas mountains on one of the last passenger trains of the White River Division of the Missouri ...