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

Anyone who farms in Missouri knows that timing is everything. Whether it’s planting before the weather turns, getting grain to market at the right moment or making sure fertilizer arrives when it's ...

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. The ...

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 ...

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