Railroad Park in downtown Russellville serves as a open-air museum of sorts, preserving the community’s rich legacy as a stop along the former Bagnell Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

Missouri Pacific caboose helps share story of Russellville’s railroad legacy October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m. | Updated October 16, 2021 at 4:50 a.m. by Jeremy P. Ämick news@newstribune.com ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Transportation will use a historic $50 million in state funding to make updates to railroad crossings across the state.

Union Pacific, which bought the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. in 1988, had lined up a contractor to dismantle it when then-Attorney General Jay Nixon sued in 2005 to halt the project.

Issue: Whether the federally funded addition of a component of a warning device (retroreflective tape) to an existing warning device (a crossbuck warning sign) at a railroad crossing is the ...