The West Virginia Central Railroad is a state-owned freight line on former Western Maryland track around Elkins, run by the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, which also sells passenger trips from Elkins.

Inside the sandstone Union Pacific depot in downtown Cheyenne, the Cheyenne Depot Museum tells the story of the transcontinental railroad, the Big Boy era and the city the railroad built.

The Tucumcari Railroad Museum shares the Rock Island and Southern Pacific story of eastern New Mexico inside the restored 1926 Union Station, which marks its 100th year in 2026.

Upstairs in the historic East Ely Depot, this state museum shows the Nevada Northern Railway's offices as they were used, from the payroll window to the superintendent's desk.

Founded in 1990, the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge preserves regional locomotives and passenger cars, including Southern E-8 No. 6913, while it searches for a new home for its trains.

At Depot Square, on the site of the old Union Station, the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum preserves 1906 steam Engine 304, KATY switcher 1029 and a line of railcars as volunteers work toward a full reopening.

In Williams, the Arizona State Railroad Museum Foundation has been gathering historic Arizona rail equipment since 2009 for a planned 21-acre museum. Its cornerstone boxcar is on view at Glassburn Park on Route 66.

For 16 years the South Dakota State Railroad Museum in Hill City told the story of the state's railroads through a caboose, a depot exhibit, a model railroad and a library. The museum has now closed for good.

Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum, now the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation, fills the 1884 Mount Clare roundhouse with 19th-century locomotives and runs train rides on the first mile of American railroad.

The 1910 Hattiesburg Train Depot on Newman Street is still a working Amtrak station, a downtown gathering place and the home of two retired engines, including Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern No. 300.

Volunteers in New Haven, Indiana restored Nickel Plate Road steam locomotive 765 in 1979 and still run it today. Here is how to visit the shop, ride the Indiana Rail Experience and see the growing fleet.

The Rhode Island Railroad Museum shares the state's rail history from the historic Kingston Station in West Kingston, an 1875 depot built by the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad on today's Northeast Corridor.

The Danbury Railway Museum fills Danbury's restored 1903 Union Station and the railyard behind it, with weekend rides that stop at Connecticut's only intact railroad turntable.

Since 2000, the Three Rivers Rambler has carried riders 11 miles from Knoxville to the trestle where the French Broad and Holston Rivers form the Tennessee River, now aboard the Christmas Lantern Express.

On Mercer Street in Princeton, West Virginia, a small museum keeps the story of the Virginian Railway, the Richest Little Railroad in the World, with a restored caboose and more than 100 lanterns.

The Reading & Northern Railroad, a working freight line based in Port Clinton, runs all-day passenger trips from Reading, Port Clinton and Tamaqua to Jim Thorpe, plus steam and fall foliage specials.

Seventeen Illinois train museums and rail sites in one guide: unlimited rides in Union, trolleys in South Elgin, an 1876 depot in Amboy, the Rochelle diamond and model trains in Chicago and Kankakee.

In Contoocook Village, volunteers have restored an 1849 depot, a wooden passenger coach and the world's oldest surviving covered railroad bridge into a free museum and visitor center.

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula tells Missoula County's story across a 32-acre historic park, from the Northern Pacific's arrival in 1883 to the timber industry and the Save Our Willamette effort.

Mississippi's rail stops include Casey Jones's train bell in Water Valley, a free O-gauge layout in Cleveland, Illinois Central history in McComb and a model of old Jackson at the Ag Museum.