Hailed as the “Lady Engineer” who “took the pain out of the train,” Olive Wetzel Dennis made her lasting mark on passenger ...

The George S. Walker train ferry transports a train across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to the Anchorage railroad ...

Rock Island passenger trains ... MP postwar bedroom/lounge car 26-seat lounge section of 5-double-bedroom/lounge car, built by Pullman-Standard. Photo by Missouri Pacific MP postwar dining ...

After reading the Feb. 2 Curious Louisiana story about the Southern Pacific Railroad ... a capacity of 16 freight cars or eight passenger cars. "In May 1922, the railroad contracted with the ...

Missouri Pacific locomotives, both steam and diesel, display a variety typical of their era. Missouri Pacific 2-8-4 No. 1119 rolls a southbound freight over a new highway bridge at Austin, Texas ...

The population of Boone has changed little since 1925, according to mayor Elijah Stines. But the town – now 12,400 according ...

H.F. Harvey collection A Missouri Pacific Mountain-type 4-8-2 rolls an 83-car train under the coaling tower at Gurdon, Ark., in 1952. Soon, diesels would render the locomotive, and coaling tower, ...

The plan, announced Feb. 13, includes a combination of preventive measures on BNSF's behalf — such as identifying leaky grain cars and removing ... package. The railroad slows down for human ...

Will Johnson, Chief Special Agent, BNSF Railway Policy Department & Second Vice President of the International Association of ...

This was the case, in my opinion, with Missouri Pacific’s obscure group ... the MoPac system’s premier passenger trains in Texas, were running quite heavy, often with 20 to 22 heavyweight cars. The ...

In 2003, the city of Kirkwood purchased the building to ensure its continued operation as a passenger rail stop. Volunteers from the Kirkwood community staff the station today, and it remains the ...