Missouri Pacific caboose helps share story of Russellville’s railroad legacy. October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m. | Updated October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m.

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 ...

The Pacific Railroad, forerunner of the Missouri Pacific, fired up its first locomotive in St. Louis in 1852. Its tracks never reached the Pacific Ocean, but the system eventually connected St ...

This 62-mile railroad became a part of the Missouri Pacific Line with stations east of and in El Dorado. Additional stations were located in Butler County at Oil Hill, Hopkins, Potwin, Brainerd ...

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.

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

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.