The CRANDIC interurban carried riders between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City for nearly fifty years and still runs as a freight railroad. Here is its story and where to learn more about it today.

Marshall's 1912 Texas & Pacific depot still sees Amtrak's Texas Eagle stop, and inside it the Texas & Pacific Railway Museum honors the railroad workers who helped build the town and the state.

Southwest of Raleigh, the volunteer-run North Carolina Railway Museum operates the New Hope Valley Railway, the Triangle's Train, on an hour-long, 4-mile round trip through piney woods and over a trestle.

Florida's train museums run from a presidential railcar in Miami to a free depot in Milton, with real train rides in Parrish, Fort Myers and Clewiston. Here are 15 stops, with hours, prices and day trips.

Founded in 1990 by Galen and Sue Cole, Bangor's Cole Land Transportation Museum gathers trucks, trains, cabooses, tractors, fire equipment and veterans' stories under one roof. Kids under 19 get in free.

The LM&M Railroad runs vintage train rides from historic downtown Lebanon, Ohio, over the old Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern line, with themed trips from the Puppy Train to the Pumpkin Express.

The Sioux City Railroad Museum turns the Milwaukee Road's old 32-acre engine terminal into a free, hands-on museum with weekend miniature train rides, a roundhouse and steam engine 1355, Ironhorse.

At 221 W 1st St in Clovis, New Mexico, the Clovis Depot Model Train Museum runs eleven layouts in most scales and tells the story of the Belen Cutoff, with live BNSF trains outside.

In Old Poway Park, volunteers run a full-size narrow gauge railroad with a 1907 Baldwin steam locomotive, a 1906 San Francisco cable car and a Fairmont speeder, offering short rides on weekends.

At Silverwood Theme Park in Athol, Idaho, a 1915 Porter steam locomotive called No. 7 pulls riders on a 3.2-mile loop around the park and into the back woods, train robbers included.

The Alder Gulch Shortline is a 30-inch narrow gauge railroad owned by the State of Montana, carrying visitors 1.5 miles between Virginia City and Nevada City on a narrated 15-minute ride.

Portland's Oregon Rail Heritage Center shelters the city's famous steam locomotives, including Southern Pacific 4449 and SP&S 700, with a working machine shop, a restored turntable and excursion trains.

Cape May Seashore Lines is a South Jersey short line that hauls freight and runs passenger excursions through Atlantic and Cape May counties, recalling the days of taking the train to the shore.

Sky Railway runs entertainment trains on the 18-mile historic line between Santa Fe and Lamy, New Mexico, with live music, sunset rides, a family Christmas train and a creative team led by George R.R. Martin.

The Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum remembers the 25-stall Western Maryland roundhouse and the five railroads that made Hagerstown the Hub City, with artifacts, cabooses and model railroads.

Built in 1914, the Manassas Railroad Depot is still a working VRE and Amtrak stop and houses the city's Visitor Center and the James and Marion Payne Railroad Heritage Gallery.

Opened in 1912, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh depot in Orchard Park once carried commuters and shoppers to Buffalo. The Western New York Railway Historical Society now cares for it.

On the fifth floor of the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma sits the largest model railroad on permanent public view in Washington, run by the volunteers of Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers.

Ohio History Connection in Columbus keeps railroad records and photographs, from Hocking Valley company papers to an album of 337 images of grade elimination work near a West Broad Street station.

On Falls Road in Baltimore, the all-volunteer Baltimore Streetcar Museum gives unlimited rides on restored city streetcars, with carhouse tours, a visitors' center and Santa's Streetcar in December.