It might be a warm summer morning in the early 1950s on the Illinois Central near Clinton, Ill.; or maybe a cold January day ...

Several railroad cars derailed on Terminal Railroad tracks at Monsanto Avenue and Illinois 3 in Sauget shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday. Sauget Police Chief James Jones said "four to five" cars ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Steel-Frame Side-Door Passenger Car Built by the Illinois Central Railroad Company ” in SA Supplements Vol. 56 No. 1448supp (October ...

Railroad names passenger coach after Reading’s Pagoda ... it was built in the 1920s for the Illinois Central Railroad. ... owns almost 1,400 freight cars and employs nearly 300 people.

Railroad cars derailed at Illinois Route 3 in Sauget, leading to temporary road closures. Authorities are working to determine the cause of the accident.

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...

A Hyde Park, Chicago event honored victims, survivors and first responders of the deadly 1972 Chicago train crash on the Illinois Central Railroad.