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On this episode, we examine how far high speed rail has come in Illinois. With 110 mile per hour trains running between ...
Could central Ohio withstand 750,000 more cars on our roads? National transportation experts are focused on Columbus to see ...
For decades, Americans all over the country have taken rides in trains pulled by a legend and perhaps didn’t even know it.
Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union Pacific and Wabash for the City of St. Louis in 1958, U.S.
1984: Politicians of all levels gathered to meet President Ronald Reagan, who stopped by Decatur in a re-election campaign ...
James E. Camden, an 19-year-old East Peoria teen, was identified as the man who died after being struck by a high-speed passenger train near the intersection of North Towanda Avenue and Kays Drive ...
A teenager that was killed by a train on Thursday in Mt. Zion is the seventh person in Central Illinois to die in a train related incident since last month.
Mark Quam, secretary of the West Central Wisconsin Rail Coalition, which has advocated for passenger rail in the region, acknowledged uncertainty in the federal government creates problems — but he ...
Springfield's $557 million rail improvement project nears completion after over 10 years of construction starting in 2014, promising to streamline the city's transit system with a two-lane railroad ...
GREENUP — As Illinois Central passenger train No. 224, in charge of Conductor Fitch and Engineer Crane, was pulling out of Greenup this morning about 10:25 a.m., a heavy roadster automobile with ...
This article was originally published with the title “The Steel-Frame Side-Door Passenger Car Built by the Illinois Central Railroad Company” in SA Supplements Vol. 56 No. 1448supp (October ...