Located in the railroad yard off Route 92 is a 400,000 square foot, brown-bricked building that once was the largest locomotive repair shop of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad before it ...

Tricia Menke, Events and Outreach Coordinator at the Illinois Railway Museum, joins Lisa Dent to share who’s visiting the ...

Rich Patterson's dad, Henry Patterson, served in the Navy during WWII. Rich and his wife, Marion, drove to the Rock Island ...

The Wichita Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society will sponsor a special railfan weekend June 20-21.

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. (KWQC) - The Rock Island Arsenal Museum is on a proposed closure list. The announcement comes after the Arsenal Museum reopened in 2023 after being closed for over three ...

A spokesperson for the U.S. Army Center of Military History confirmed that the museum is on a proposed closure list. A final decision is pending.

Rock Island Trail breaks new ground, with plans for 450-mile loop across Missouri Backers of the 144-mile railroad corridor hope it will become a destination for cyclists and hikers.

The Rock Island Bridge is shown in June 2024 as the Kansas City, Kansas, redevelopment project remains underway. Built in 1905, the decommissioned railroad bridge is being repurposed for event ...

From the late 1930s, the depot served the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad in addition to the Rock Island line. Passenger service at the depot came to a close in May 1970.

It was once a busy branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Now, coyotes prowl one of New York City’s last wild places. What will it become next?

Rock Island Rail Days kicks off June 3 and 4 in Fairbury with music, stage shows and a kid-powered model railroad. The free event will be at the Rock Island Railroad Depot Museum at 910 Bacon Road.

Sabin is a long time Rock Island railroader — at one time he was the youngest train dispatcher on the Rock — and has accumulated a substantial collection of railroad artifacts, photographs and ...