Crowl retired in 2009. “It made the town," he said about railroad's impact. What was a five-mile drive to work, soon became 60 miles. In 1982, Missouri Pacific merged with Union Pacific.

The town’s start is closely linked to the Missouri Pacific railroad tracks that run through the area. “A long time ago there ...

Also the failed attempt to bring the Pacific railroad across the Missouri River at Florence. Mitchell was linked to it all.

After graduating from Central Missouri University, he worked in sales for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific and FedEx. In 1983, Steward purchased his first business—an auditing ...

To Kansas City belongs the honor of building the pioneer bridge over the Missouri. On the south or west side of the river the Pacific Railroad (of Missouri) extends irom St. Louis to the State ...

It was the original downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Along the Kansas and Missouri Pacific railroad tracks, the stockyards ...

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam engine, paving the way for the mechanized production of the Industrial Revolution. Asa Whitney presents a ...

The City of Pacific began notifying residents Tuesday that major flooding from the Meramec River appears imminent. The city asked residents living in flood-prone areas to leave for higher ground ...

The world's largest steam engine stopped in Greeley on Wednesday before departing for its home in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A torrent of rain hit Missouri early this week ... But downtown was dry. Upstream in Pacific, the swollen Meramec had turned a section of the neighborhood south of the railroad tracks into a lake of ...