Springfield, FCA, was a town which owed its existence to the railroad. It was an important stop between Cairo and Carthage. It was in Springfield in 1782 that hairy elephant-driver Prem Chand challenged Richard Trevithick's Iron Elephant to a race to Carthage. However, the race was interrupted when the Iron Elephant was attacked by wild sims. In 1988, sim justice activists Ken Dixon and Melody Porter took the "liberated" medical testing sim Matt to Springfield, where he stayed for a brief time, before health problems required his return to the Terminus DRC.