Our first lecture was ‘A Tale of Two Ski Towns,’ which was about Ketchum, Idaho, and Park City, in which the towns were served by the Union Pacific,” Nicholas said. “In February this past year, we did ...

“We have a couple of locomotives, including our oldest locomotive called the Rocket, which was built in 1838," recalled Museum Director Patrick Morrison. "That is a Philadelphia-Reading Railway ...

In the summer of 1925, the speed limit on country roads was raised -- to 35 miles an hour. Sheriff Paul T. Beardsley warned ...

The Imperial Calcasieu Museum is itself reflective of local history. The bricks were salvaged from the old Missouri Pacific Railroad station. The white columns are from the once-proud Majestic ...

Therefore, the Southern Pacific Railroad's line used the George H. Walker for 11 years between 1923 and the abandonment of its southwest Louisiana railway in 1934.

Frances Levine will discuss “Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at the Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza branch, 4801 Main St., Kansas City, Missouri 64112.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously chartered companies. It acquired the Georgetown Railroad Company in 1879.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad began using the cowshed in 1882, but by 1889 the structure was judged unsafe and razed. The steel roof trusses were salvaged and used in building a freight depot at ...

Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, the lines south and southwest of St. Louis, and the lines in Texas and ...

Barnes will discuss the book at 1 p.m. Friday at Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library, 186 Spring St., and at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Boone County Library, 221 W Stephenson Ave., in Harrison.

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. "Forty years ...

In 2008, a replica of the 1888 Missouri Pacific Railroad train depot was built by the Blackwater Preservation Society and is used as a community center that hosts both public and private events.