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A view of the EMD F9 PH A unit powering the northbound end of the train. The Branson Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in Branson, Missouri. The Ozark Zephyr, Branson Scenic Railway's historic zephyr train, departs from an old depot in downtown Branson and operates in the scenic Ozark Mountains for an approximate 40-mile (64 km) round trip ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest. It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive ...
Ridable miniature railway. A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors ).
Bloom will celebrate 50 years of providing train rides on the Little River Railroad with a special 1 p.m. run Sunday. "It's just a hobby that got way out of hand.
In Missouri, more than 137,000 children age 5 and younger are enrolled in Imagination Library. They receive a free book by mail every month. As promised, Dolly Parton will visit Missouri to ...
The station was built in 1910 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway.When the line and railroad was bought by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917, the station was renamed the Missouri Pacific Depot, and when the line was bought by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1982, the station was renamed the Union Pacific Depot in 1983, despite the fact that it was already used by Amtrak. [3]
The rail line used by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a spur off the original Chicago and North Western Railway mainline. With the development of the Illinois Iron mine in early 1903, the C&NW sent a team of engineers on July 8, 1903, to survey a route to the iron fields. By August 12, C&NW president Marvin Hughitt had arrived in North ...
Independence station, also known as Missouri Pacific Depot, is an Amtrak train station in Independence, Missouri, United States. The station was originally built in 1913 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and is also known as the "Truman Depot", because it was the final stop in Harry S. Truman 's 1948 Whistlestop Campaign where 8,500 admirers ...