The McComb Railroad Depot Museum keeps Illinois Central history alive in McComb, Mississippi, and is open at a temporary Third Street home while its 1901 depot is rebuilt after a 2021 fire.

In Olde Towne's 1884 B&O rail complex, the free Gaithersburg Community Museum pairs city history with a 1918 steam engine, a caboose play area, a 1953 Rail Diesel Car and live MARC trains rolling past.

Las Vegas, New Mexico grew up around the Santa Fe Railway. Here is what is known about a railroad museum in town, and the roundhouse, depot and Harvey House history you can see.

Beside the CSX main line in Terre Haute, the Wabash Valley Railroad Museum shows two interlocking towers, two cabooses, a Pullman WWII troop sleeper and a GE switcher, with a deck for watching trains.

From the Elgin Depot in Northeast Oregon, the Eagle Cap Excursion Train runs down the Grande Ronde River and up the Wild and Scenic Wallowa River on a roadless stretch of the historic Joseph Branch.

From Antonito, Colorado, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad climbs by steam to 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass and along Toltec Gorge, crossing the New Mexico line 11 times on its way to Chama.

Inside Kingman's fireproof 1907 Santa Fe depot on Route 66, volunteers run O, HO and N scale model trains among donated railroad memorabilia while real trains roll past outside.

Formed in 2020, the Bridgton & Saco River Railroad Museum on Main Street in Bridgton is working to preserve and restore the history of the town's two-foot narrow gauge railroad.

Kirby Family Farm in Williston, Florida is a nonprofit railroad, history and farm museum that uses its trains and exhibits to help at-risk kids, and opens to the public for themed train events.

A small museum of local and railroad history housed in a restored Rock Island depot in north central Iowa. Details are scarce online, so here is what is known and what to confirm before a visit.

Run by the Paducah Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the Paducah Railroad Museum in downtown Paducah tells western Kentucky's rail story with artifacts, model trains and a locomotive cab simulator.

Volunteers in Alna, Maine have rebuilt the two-foot gauge Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, and the museum runs steam trains, themed excursions and open shops on Saturdays all year.

At Crossroads Village near Flint, the Huckleberry Railroad pulls narrow gauge wooden coaches along Mott Lake behind a 1920 Baldwin steam engine that once helped build the Alaska Railroad.

The volunteer Minnesota Streetcar Museum runs restored Twin Cities and Duluth streetcars on two lines: between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis, and through historic Excelsior.

In Honesdale, Pennsylvania, the Wayne County Historical Society keeps a full-size replica of the Stourbridge Lion, the first locomotive to run on commercial track in the United States, in the old D&H Canal Company office.

On the grounds of the old New York Central depot in North East, Pennsylvania, an all-volunteer society shows off rare GE-built locomotives and Pullman cars right beside a busy freight main line.

In Albuquerque, an all-volunteer nonprofit spent more than 20 years restoring Santa Fe 2926, a 1944 Baldwin 4-8-4 Northern that New Mexico named its Official Steam Locomotive.

The Winnipesaukee Railway, long known as the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad, runs lakeshore train rides from Meredith and Weirs Beach on a line whose rails were first laid in 1848.

The Brunswick Heritage Museum, once the Brunswick Railroad Museum, tells the story of a B&O company town and runs a large HO layout of the line from Washington to the Brunswick yards.

El Paso's streetcars ran from 1881 to 1974, once crossing the border into Juárez. In 2018 the city's restored PCC cars came back to the streets on a 4.8-mile route through Downtown and UTEP.