Few Americans know that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was the first freight railroad to lay tracks west of the Mississippi.

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 ...

Lucile Morris Upton and newspaper photographer Betty Love took a trip through the Missouri and Arkansas mountains on one of the last passenger trains of the White River Division of the Missouri ...

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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 of ...

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