CHICAGO, Ill., June 3. -- The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rock Island Railroad Company will be held in this city to-morrow. R. R. Cable, Chairman of the Board of Directors ...

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The locomotive will start rolling on the Rock Island Line later this month before moving to other of the rail agency's lines.

The marker takes the form of a locomotive wheel and was erected by the Rock Island Railroad in 1954. William Morris writes for the Des Moines Register. He can be contacted at wrmorris2@ ...

El Dorado police have confirmed the identity of a woman whose remains were found Oct. 15 along the railroad tracks in the ...

One of the distinguishing features of the Quad City area, Rock Island in particular, is its railroad history. Clarence Wilson's 1929 folk song "Rock Island Line," recorded by the iconic musician ...

When Dad was born, the family home was down by the river. In the spring of 1928 a torrential rain caused the river to flood. Dad’s oldest brother, Clyde, carried Dad on his shoulders through waist ...

"We have a line today, and we have had lines all throughout the early voting period. Last weekend, we had people who waited ...