Residents and former employees recall the long-term effects the merger of the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroad companies on the city of Osawatomie.

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 ...

The Missouri Pacific would become a powerful force in locomotive passenger and freight traffic across the Southwest. In fact, “MoPac,” an acronym for the railroad, is a heavily-traveled road ...

The main rail company serving southwest Missouri says it’s not entertaining the possibility of merging with another railroad.

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.

Read here the The Pacific Railway Act, An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean.

The prospects for additional consolidation in the rail industry derailed this week when both of CSX's potential partners said ...

Rail operating company Union Pacific is set to invest nearly $49m for the development of railway infrastructure across Missouri this year, in a bid to improve passenger safety.