At Goldfield Ghost Town outside Apache Junction, the Superstition Scenic Narrow Gauge Railroad circles the old mining town on a mile and a half of 36-inch track, with the engineer narrating the desert along the way.

At Kilohana Plantation in Lihue, the Kauai Plantation Railway runs narrated 40-minute rides in mahogany cars past sugarcane, taro and fruit groves, with a stop to feed pigs, goats, sheep and a donkey.

Ashland's Soo Line Depot is a brownstone Richardson Romanesque station built around 1889 to 1890, used by the Wisconsin Central and the Soo Line and listed on the National Register in 1988.

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad runs narrated 35-minute trains from Virginia City's original 1870 depot to Gold Hill and back, past old Comstock mines and, sometimes, wild horses.

In downtown Hugo, Oklahoma, the Choctaw County Historical Society keeps a 1914 Frisco depot filled with a Harvey House lunchroom, a model railroad and a miniature five-ring circus.

Since 1934, volunteers at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum have built miniature Twin Cities railroads. Today the St. Paul museum fills 11,000 square feet with layouts kids can run with a button.

The Wisconsin Historical Society's Library and Archives in Madison hold photographs, maps and records that rail historians use to tell the story of Wisconsin's railroads, free to the public.

Built in 1869 and remodeled in 1891, Ashland's old railroad station is now a small museum run by the Ashland Historical Society, open summer Saturdays and by appointment.

The Georgetown Loop Railroad climbs about 640 feet between Georgetown and Silver Plume on an 1884 narrow gauge route, with steam engine No. 111, the Lebanon Silver Mine tour and Santa's Lighted Forest.

In Water Valley's 1850s depot, once the Illinois Central's Mississippi division headquarters, the Casey Jones Railroad Museum honors the famous engineer who lived and worked in town.

A 15-inch gauge steam railway and living museum in Wisconsin Dells, the Riverside & Great Northern carries families two miles through rock cuts and woods beside the Wisconsin River on weekends.

Jacksonville's grand 1919 train station, the Jacksonville Terminal, lives on as the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center. Here is its railroad story and how to see it today.

The Wilmington & Western Railroad runs steam and diesel excursions through Delaware's Red Clay Valley on a line chartered in 1867, kept running by Historic Red Clay Valley, Inc. and its volunteers.

Fort Worth's Texas & Pacific depot, built in 1931, recalls the railroad that brought the city its first rail line in 1876. Here is its story, what the T&P Station name means today, and where to see more.

From the 1905 depot in downtown Blue Ridge, Georgia, the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway follows the Toccoa River to McCaysville, where riders can stand in Georgia and Tennessee at the same time.

Brownsville's 1928 Southern Pacific depot houses the Historic Brownsville Museum, where exhibits on the city's founding share the grounds with Rio Grande Engine No. 1, an 1872 Baldwin wood burner.

In Phillips, Maine, volunteers run authentic two-foot gauge equipment on the trackbed of the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, once the largest of Maine's narrow gauge lines, plus a famous Ghost Train.

The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Historical Society gathers and shares the history of the Lackawanna, the Erie and the railroad they formed together, with an archive building in Avoca, New York.

Founded in 1972 and chartered in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Road Historical Association studies and preserves the history of the Milwaukee Road through its magazine, books, archives and an annual convention.

Steam and diesel trains roll between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont on the 1860s transcontinental railroad route, run by the volunteer Pacific Locomotive Association as a living history museum.