The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. BOONE — When the Flyer Fraser train chugs out of the station in front of the museum at the Boone & ...

Like many towns of its time, Boone was built as a railroad stop and would not have existed had a train not been routed through the town. In 1865, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad was laid in ...

As part of “The Big Event” of 2018 seven members of the Boone FFA Chapter volunteer group performed a variety of important tasks at the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad earlier this month. During the ...

Iowans will get a chance Thursday to go on a ride that's the first of its kind in the Midwest.KCCI’s Marcus McIntosh got to try it out earlier this month.Rail Explorers is taking over some of Boone's ...

businesses are closed tonight, after a possible gas leak... following to train derailment! It happened just north of the Boone Hy-Vee around 6 o'clock tonight. Train cars nearly crashed into the ...

BOONE, Iowa – The history of railroading in Iowa is being saved and is on display at the James H. Andrew Railroad Museum in Boone. The 9,000-square-foot museum is part of the Boone & Scenic Valley ...

Could men from Boone County be the perpetrators of the first peace-time train robbery in U.S. history? To this day, historians disagree. On May 5, 1865, as many as 20 men crossed in four skiffs from ...

The Boone County Public Library is delving deeper into the county’s long, and sometimes dark, history. Discover Boone County’s hidden history with the library’s first countywide Underground Railroad ...

BOONE, Iowa (AP) -- Railroad workers in Boone will not be asked to relocate to Clinton when Union Pacific Railroad opens four new rail lines. Railroad spokesman Mark Davis said Union Pacific has ...