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Trains once ferried across the river from Baton Rouge to Anchorage. But where was Anchorage?
The George S. Walker train ferry transports a train across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to the Anchorage railroad ...
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Former CEO Dick Davidson Recalls Living the ‘American Dream’ on the Railroad
Dick Davidson looks back on his life with a touch of amazement and a hefty helping of gratitude. At age 83, he still marvels ...
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Missouri Pacific locomotives remembered
MP 4-6-2 5327 rolls the Missourian past a Terminal Railroad Association Baldwin diesel as Frisco 4-8-2 4401 backs the Will Rogers into Union Station. Harold E. Williams photo Missouri Pacific 4-6 ...
Texas Supreme Court refuses to hear train contract case
The Texas Supreme Court has refused to allow Anderson County to have a rehearing in the long running International and Great Northern Railroad, Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific train case. “The ...
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Towner Rail Line revs up for the real thing
Before that, the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which built the line about 1890, ran a fruit train, hauling local produce overnight to market in Kansas City, McCleary recalled. Their daughter Laurie, who ...
Northbound Interstate 55 in south St. Louis to close overnight Saturday and March 21
Northbound Interstate 55 in south St. Louis will be closed overnight March 14 and 21. Construction crews will be placing ...
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5 traits of the Western Pacific Railroad
The last transcontinental railroad: In the late 1860s ... with Denver & Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific owner George Gould leading the charge. However, westward expansion by rail had long since ...
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Out of the past: March 7
The 10-day shutdown of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., brought on by the coal shortage, will end at 6 a.m. tomorrow when the first of three shifts will report for work; the Missouri Pacific Railroad is ...