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 Rock Island Railroad Bridge, which he is charged with conspiring to destroy, spans the Mississippi at a peculiarly unfortunate part of the river for the location of such a structure ...

This is the Rock Island Bridge: a reinforced, revamped railroad bridge spanning the Kansas ... In the event of extreme rain, the Kansas River would now overflow its levees on either side before ...