In Wickersham, Washington, the Lake Whatcom Railway ran old-time Northern Pacific trains behind steam engine 1070 in century-old Pullman coaches. Its regular rides appear to have ended.

The New England Southern Railroad is a shortline freight railroad founded in 1981 that works the state-owned White Mountain Branch in central New Hampshire. Here is its story and how rail fans can learn more.

Founded in 1917, the Portsmouth Historical Society collects four centuries of Seacoast history at 10 Middle Street. Here is what to expect, and what rail fans should ask before they visit.

The B&O Ellicott City Station is the oldest railroad station in America, the end of the Baltimore and Ohio's first 13 miles of track. Free to visit, with an HO model of the route and a 1927 caboose.

In Linden, Indiana, volunteers keep a historic depot where the Nickel Plate Road and the Monon once crossed, with railroad artifacts, a CSX caboose and a full-size replica of an 1837 steam engine.

NJ TRANSIT painted working locomotives in the colors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Lackawanna, Jersey Central and more, so riders can still meet New Jersey rail history on everyday trains.

Vermont's rail stops include an 1890 depot at Shelburne Museum, model layouts in a Center Rutland station, the Green Mountain Flyer, a Burlington dinner train and a working Bellows Falls depot.

Inside Duluth's 1892 Union Depot, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum keeps an indoor yard of locomotives, from Minnesota's first engine to a massive Yellowstone, open every day of the year but a few.

The Green Mountain Railroad, founded in 1964, runs the Green Mountain Flyer between Bellows Falls and Chester Depot in spring through fall, with popular foliage trips in September and October.

Deadwood's 1897 passenger depot, built by the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, now serves as the Deadwood History and Information Center, with a small museum recreating a trip by train.

At the St. Louis Mercantile Library on the UMSL campus, the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library holds one of North America's largest railroad history collections, from timetables to the Milwaukee Road archives.

Saved from demolition by Red Oak citizens in the 1990s, the 1903 Burlington depot now celebrates Southwest Iowa's railroad history and honors Montgomery County's World War II service.

Since 1895, the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway has hauled riders up a steep mile from Chattanooga's St. Elmo neighborhood to the top of Lookout Mountain, now in new railcars after the 2024 fire.

In the old Helper Hotel on Main Street, the Western Mining and Railroad Museum tells Carbon County's coal and railroad story floor by floor, from a mock coal mine below to views of the working rail yard above.

On the Essex waterfront, the Connecticut River Museum tells the story of New England's great river and each winter hosts Steve Cryan's holiday model train show, now in its 33rd year.

Since 1972, volunteers at the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway have run vintage trains out of Nelsonville, Ohio, along the Hocking River near Hocking Hills, from fall foliage rides to the Santa Train.

Since 1948, the Griffith Park & Southern Railroad has carried Los Angeles families on a mile of miniature track over bridges, through a tunnel and past a little Old Western Town in Griffith Park.

In downtown Galveston, the Galveston Railroad Museum fills five acres around the restored 1932 Santa Fe depot with walk-through passenger cars, Warbonnet diesels, cabooses and a seasonal caboose ride.

Boise's 1925 Union Pacific depot sits on the bench above Capitol Boulevard with a 96-foot bell tower, a Great Hall of original benches and the Platt Gardens. It is closed for restoration until late 2027.

Founded by community volunteers in 1956, Green Bay's National Railroad Museum holds more than 70 pieces of rolling stock, including Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4017 and General Eisenhower's World War II command train.