A look at rare diesel locomotives still in regular service and the dwindling fleet of these unique and historic workhorses.

Engine-maintenance workers at the Missouri Pacific locomotive shop in St. Louis prepare an engine after a railroad strike ended in October 1949. Steam engines needed large numbers of workers to ...

The western bound express and eastern bound mail trains on the Missouri Pacific Railroad ran into each other twenty miles east of here to-day.

SPRINGFIELD -- Union Pacific's new commemorative No. 1616 Lincoln Locomotive will be coming to Springfield for a public viewing on July 1. It honors Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president, in his ...

Residents and former employees recall the long-term effects the merger of the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroad companies on the city of Osawatomie.

ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 11.--No freight trains are running over the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the situation at Sedalia, Moberly, Kansas City, Atchison, and other points remains unchanged.

When it comes to the most powerful engines in modern-day, you wouldn't be alone if your mind immediately went to the highly ...

Union Pacific Railroad will be showcasing the 1.1-million pound train as it travels through 10 states, including Missouri and Arkansas.

Union Pacific Railroad ended its eight-week Big Boy No. 4014 “Heartland of America” tour recently, and Ed Dickens and the Steam Team are looking full speed ahead to future tours.

Lucile Morris Upton and newspaper photographer Betty Love rode one of the last passenger trains from Missouri to Arkansas in 1960.

DE SOTO, Mo. — The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is expected to make a stop in De Soto on Thursday, Sept. 12. Union Pacific Railroad announced that its famed Big Boy No. 4014 ...

ARKANSAS (KNWA/KFTA) — The “Big Boy” locomotive, one of the world’s largest trains will pass through the Show Me State and the Natural State next month. Union Pacific Railroad will be ...