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In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it would take to turn ...
The historic Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is planning a unique Memorial Day Weekend excursion. According to the Railroad ...
Amtrak says the scope of work is too large to use the L train method. To those of us on the LIRR Commuter Council, that thinking deserves another, closer look. After all, it’s hard to give ...
Though Council Bluffs was once known as “the city of depots,” there is just one left in recognizable condition — the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Depot, which turns 122 ...
Hicks was a member of the LIRR's board of directors and its one-time president. The Hicksville train station was opened ... Apartment complexes such as Eagle Rock run from $2,190 to $6,500.
To show support, members of the local group "Downriver Rocks!" have created a “rock train," a growing trail of painted stones, outside the hospital entrance. Ray and his mother have spent years ...
Two such examples of former Rock Island Railroad depots can be found in Lonoke and North Little Rock. The town of Lonoke, which was established along the railroad tracks connecting Memphis to ...
Full Long Island Rail Road train service was restored Friday morning after a train struck a car on the tracks, leading to partial suspensions along the Ronkonkoma Branch, according to LIRR officials.
With bridge workers aboard, the locomotive Fort Des Moines, of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad ... The next day, the first passenger train — a locomotive, baggage car and one passenger ...
for the holiday season. Reid Dawe, Rock Island Railroad general manager, says their holiday train, Santa Rocket, is set to roll down the rails. “We’re excited, we’re ready to go,” Dawe said.