Joplin, Missouri-based Jaguar Transport Holdings has acquired five short-line railroads and a railroad construction and maintenance company from The Western Group. No financial terms were disclosed.

The former director of electric and gas services/power plants and generation at Alliant Energy in Cedar Rapids has been named chief executive officer of Colo Railroad Builders, a Chicago-based ...

The month after Cape Girardeau’s own railroad builder — Louis Houck — passed away, residents here received word of the death of another entrepreneur who helped establish reliable train service in ...