Few Americans know that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was the first freight railroad to lay tracks west of the Mississippi.
Railroad Park in downtown Russellville serves as a open-air museum of sorts, preserving the community’s rich legacy as a stop along the former Bagnell Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The ...
CALIFORNIA, Mo. -- As a child, Dianne Baum's life revolved around the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Her father, Eugene Kilgore, worked for the railroad between 1949 and 1983. She remembers watching him ...