Sypult said Gifford’s frustration with the rates charged by the Illinois Central spurred his decision to start the Punkin ...

most of our railroad directors are now encouraging the use of coalburning locomotives; they are rapidly increasing in numbers, and at some future day no other kind will be employed The Illinois ...

ST. LOUIS – Big Boy No. 4014, one of the most famous steam engines in the United States, will pass through the St. Louis region next month. The Union Pacific Railroad Company is sending its Big ...

Some of the children see the locomotives every day on their way to school, and some of them are children of our employees at the company. It has always been their wish to be able to touch the ...

Terry Abrisz had some help Saturday morning as he traced railroad history in Burlington, Lee County and Illinois during the ...