Opened in 1954, the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal pulled five scattered depots into one modern station. Its murals of Louisiana history still greet Amtrak passengers on Loyola Avenue today.

At the Detroit Historical Museum, the Glancy Trains layout grew from one man's holiday train parties in Grosse Pointe Shores into a family favorite with push buttons, rare trains and Detroit rail history.

Ten Kentucky train museums in ten towns, from L&N 152 in New Haven and the 1925 depot in Bowling Green to a free toddler playgroup in La Grange and a coal camp train ride at Stearns.

Built in 1892 over the San Lorenzo River, the Felton Covered Bridge was the only way into Felton for more than four decades and is often called the tallest covered bridge in the United States.

The Durham Museum fills Omaha's Art Deco Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, with regional history, 1940s passenger cars you can climb aboard, and a working soda fountain from 1931.

North of Peoria, the Wheels O' Time Museum fills six buildings with antique and classic cars, farm machines and hands-on exhibits, open May through October with blacksmithing and family events.

The Mount Hood Railroad runs scenic excursions from Hood River up the orchard valley toward Mt. Hood, climbing a 3% grade over one of the last railroad switchbacks in the United States.

For decades the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville's Forest Park preserved railroad cars and ran excursions on former Nickel Plate track. Here is what it was, why it closed and where to ride today.

Steps from Galesburg's Seminary Street shops, the Galesburg Railroad Museum keeps CB&Q Hudson 3006, a 1945 mail car and a Pullman car alongside artifacts given by Burlington railroad families.

In Strasburg, Lancaster County, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania shows more than 100 locomotives and railroad cars made or run in the state, inside a vast arched train hall and out in the yard.

From the historic station in downtown Jim Thorpe, the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway runs narrated round trips along the Lehigh River into Lehigh Gorge State Park, with seats from open air cars to a dome car.

Eight Louisiana rail stops in one guide: a free 1923 depot museum in DeQuincy, a sawmill roundhouse with railbus rides in Long Leaf, the world's oldest streetcar line and a science museum in a 1925 depot.

The Texas State Railroad runs vintage steam and diesel trains 25 miles through the East Texas Piney Woods between historic depots in Palestine and Rusk, on a line the state first built in 1883.

From Soo Junction in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Toonerville Trolley carries riders on a 24-inch gauge train into the Tahquamenon Forest, then hands off to a riverboat bound for the Upper Falls.

From the 1913 station in Cumberland, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad climbs 16 miles to Frostburg around Helmstetter's Curve and through Brush Tunnel, often behind restored C&O steam locomotive No. 1309.

Memphis Area Transit Authority runs vintage and replica streetcars on Main Street and beyond, a heritage trolley system that opened in 1993 and makes a fun downtown ride for kids.

The free Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne covers the state's story from prehistory to today, and sits about a mile from the Cheyenne Depot and the city's Big Boy display.

Southern Pacific built Orange's Victorian-style depot in 1902. The volunteer Friends of the Orange Depot raised the money to renovate it, and today it is a small museum and event venue on Green Avenue.

Kansas gave the Santa Fe two of its three names. Find 10 train museums, depots and rides across 9 towns, from a climb-aboard yard in Wichita to a heritage railroad in Abilene.

At the old Southern Railway Spencer Shops, the N.C. Transportation Museum fills a 37-bay roundhouse and a 600-foot Back Shop with locomotives, cars, planes and a 25-minute train ride around the 60-acre site.