To conclude the 2025 Summer Series, Coby Ellison joins host Sean Rost to discuss the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis.
Episode Image: Wabash, Frisco and Pacific Live Stream Miniature Railroad, 1950. [Arthur Witman Collection (S0732), SHSMO]
Banner Image: Railroad Tunnel, Kirkwood, Missouri, date unknown. [SHSMO Glass Negative Collection (P0024), SHSMO]
Next up in the 2025 Summer Series, host Sean Rost talks with George Guastello, President and CEO of Union Station Kansas City, about one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
Episode Image: Postcard of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, date unknown. [Martin Eichenlaub Postcard Collection (P0009), SHSMO]
Banner Image: Construction of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, 1912. [George A. Fuller Company Photograph Collection (K0080), SHSMO]
Next up in the 2025 Summer Series, host Sean Rost talks with Kenneth C. Barnes about his new book, Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923.
Episode Image: Scene on the “Devil’s Eye Brow” near Seligman, Missouri, date unknown. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]
Banner Image: Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Engine 19, Joplin, Missouri, 1910. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]
Continuing the 2025 Summer Series, we return to an earlier episode featuring Joel P. Rhodes, newly named executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, discussing his book, A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck.
Episode Image: Academic Hall, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, ca. 1908. [Missouri Postcard Collection (P0032), SHSMO]
Banner Image: Houck Depot, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, date unknown. [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]
Welcome to our 2025 Summer Series which is all about the history of railroads in Missouri. You know the names, the Hannibal and St. Joseph, Northern Missouri, St. Louis and Iron Mountain, Missouri and North Arkansas, Wabash, KATY, Frisco, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Houck Line, BNSF, AMTRAK, and many others. From the depot, to the roundhouse, to the shops, and to the tracks, this series takes us all across Missouri and neighboring states to learn about the bygone era when train travel provided the main source of transportation for many Missourians.
