The Union Pacific Railroad announced last week in a press release that it has reached an $85 billion agreement to acquire rival Norfolk Southern, creating what will be the first coast-to-coast freight ...

This Day in History: February 25, 1960 - John F. Kennedy gives speech at Wausau Airport ...

As fans of “The Gilded Age” know, great fortunes were made by building railroads across the width of the USA. Chicago, of course, was the epicenter of all that. Celebrities going from New York to ...

At the Winfield Museum, March will bring exhibits about railroad history, as well as a talk by a local historian about the role trains played in Winfield's history.