it's the road to ride … " That was how folk singers and rail fans referred to the Rock Island railroad, which built its rail lines westward from Chicago to many points in the American West.

As the project has progressed, its partners have seen the bridge as an opportunity to open the slower-moving waters of the ...

The project’s initial $5 million estimated cost has significantly increased. But its creator says it has the money it needs ...

Deconstruction of the Rock Island Railroad continues in western Missouri, making way for a 144-mile trail that would join Kansas City and St. Louis. About half of a 47-mile portion between the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Construction for the Rock Island Railroad Bridge will finally begin March 13 and contractors Mike Zeller and Dan Gibson are looking forward to the start of the project.

Rock Island. Admission is $5.00. The historic achievement or running a railroad to the Mississippi River, celebrated by the Grand Excursion in 1854, will be forever memorialized in the film “The ...