Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1854 dawned sunny and cold in Rock Island. A chill wind blew off the Mississippi. The city was abustle, nevertheless. The big day had arrived, as proclaimed on posters hanging from ...

On this day 150 years ago, transportation history was made in the Quad-Cities with the opening of the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River. With bridge workers aboard, the locomotive ...

Railroad passenger service started a downward trend following World War II, as the increased affordability of automobiles, and the growth of the interstate highway system, made personal travel much ...