Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their first appearance on the American landscape, railroads -- and all the imagery they conjure up -- have featured prominently in ...

"Songs of the Illinois Freedom Road" at Beardstown Grand Opera House; a discussion at 7 p.m. May 17 by Patrick Hotle, "The Early Underground Railroad in Western Illinois," at the Old Lincoln ...

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their first appearance on the American landscape, railroads -- and all the imagery they conjure up -- have featured prominently in ...