Tarbutton and the railroad promise at least 12 new jobs with salaries offering a little better than five times the local per capita annual income of $18,000, about $90,000 a year.

Black Family Continues Fight To Keep Land Despite Court Ruling Railroads Can Take It. The Smith family inherited 600 acres of land in the area from their grandfather in the 1920s.

Property owners in the path of the railroad say they're set to lose land that's been in their family for generations. Now, they say they're appealing.

A biker rides the I&M Canal Trail as it passes through Utica on Aug. 31, 2012. There are many Underground Railroad sites in Illinois that were used in the 19th century, before and during the Civil ...

The Boulder Valley Railroad hasn’t seen action in over 20 years until recently. One railroad-loving family built railbikes on the historic tracks.