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.

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 Kerr family's not sure when he began his career, but given that he was 59 when he died, they figure he'd probably been on trains for at least 30 years. He would be the beginning of quite a ...

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.

Joey Kerr is a fourth-generation railroad engineer, part of a legacy going back more than 100 ... Then I asked if he had any old photos or mementos of his family's long life on the rails. Oh ...