In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it would take to turn ...

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, Monday, Dec. 17. In the case of the Rock Island Railroad Co. against J.W. BISSEL, for conspiracy to burn the railroad bridge across the Mississippi at Rock Island, was concluded last ...

A set of old tracks and remnants of an old swing bridge are reminders of the Rock Island Railroad’s 80 years of operations in Inver Grove Heights. And then there are the former employees ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Elected city leaders agreed Tuesday to the acquisition of what is left of the old Rock Island Railroad bridge over the Cedar River, a key milestone in plans for an iconic new ...

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 ...

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.

After the brutal cold spell in Kansas City over the last week, many are looking forward to warmer times, including the group constructing the Rock Island Bridge. The steel railroad bridge is ...

The big day had arrived, as proclaimed on posters hanging from scores of buildings and posts: ``RAILROAD FESTIVAL.'' The first train on the newly completed tracks of The Chicago and Rock Island ...

ROCK ISLAND-- Police say four juveniles are in custody after a stolen car chase ended with the vehicle crashing into a Rock Island railroad crossing. Police say it started when Moline police ...