One person was killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash involving a passenger car and a semi in Milan, Rock Island County Sheriff's investigators said.

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.

CHICAGO, Wednesday, Nov. 15. The Journal has the following: The express train on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, which left Rock Island last evening, owing to a misplaced switch two miles ...

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.

Built in 1905 by the Rock Island Railroad for transporting livestock and freight, the bridge has been out of service since the 1970s. The Rock Island Bridge project — in the West Bottoms ...