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 ...

TWO thirds of the United States lie west of the Mississippi River. This vast domain has already exercised a tremendous influence over our political destiny. The Territories were the immediate occasion ...

Written by Rita Pfingsten, Principal Consultant, Tech at Union Pacific Change, change and more change. I’ve experienced huge technological and operational advancements during the course of my 50-plus ...

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St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway ; Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. Two pieces OVERSIZE ; "Iron Mountain" railway line ; 1882, 1883, 1889 annual report ; promotional literature for encouraging ...

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