In Hamburg, Pennsylvania, the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum keeps more than 70 Reading Railroad locomotives and cars, with docent-led yard tours, a 1930s station agent's office and holiday model trains.

Newport's Missouri Pacific depot went up in 1904 as the railroad pushed its passenger and freight network across the country. The brick and stucco station has been on the National Register since 1992.

Binghamton's NRHS chapter keeps the railroad history of New York's Southern Tier and Pennsylvania's Northern Tier alive with free monthly programs in a former DL&W station, local exhibits and a quarterly newsletter.

Built in 1909, Salt Lake City's Union Pacific Depot was the city's main passenger station until 1986. Its restored waiting room, murals and stained glass now welcome guests at The Gateway.

Ten minutes from Yosemite's south entrance, the Stauffer family's narrow gauge railroad runs Shay-powered logging trains through the Sierra National Forest, with gold panning and a log cabin museum.

On Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, the free Route 66 Historical Village sets the Frisco 4500 steam engine, a big red caboose and a 1929 Pullman car beside an oil derrick and a cottage gas station.

The Secret City Scenic Excursion Train once carried riders over seven miles of former Southern Railway track in Oak Ridge. Its operator says the excursions have ended, but the restoration work goes on.

The Wabash Railroad Museum in Decatur, Michigan keeps alive the name of the Wabash, a Class I railroad that once ran across six states and Ontario. Little is posted online, so call ahead.

Every Sunday in Griffith Park, the all-volunteer Los Angeles Live Steamers give public rides on 7.5-inch gauge trains over a member-built railroad of tunnels, bridges and a 1.5-mile main line.

Volunteers in Winnsboro rebuilt an old granite-hauling short line into the Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad. The museum is free, and seasonal excursions roll through woods and granite hills.

From Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Delaware River Railroad Excursions runs volunteer-crewed trains along the river to Riegelsville, with a gem panning mine stop, a free pumpkin patch and The Polar Express.

Brainerd's Northern Pacific Center turns old railroad repair shop buildings, some dating to 1871, into a district of shops, dining, weddings and community events like a December Christmas market.

Georgia's train museums range from Savannah's 1850s railroad shops to the General in Kennesaw, a caboose ride in Duluth and a mountain train in Blue Ridge. Here is what each one offers families.

The Pacific Northwest's largest trolley museum runs historic streetcars from England, Australia and Oregon on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park in Brooks, just north of Salem.

Founded in 1976, the Southern Oregon Railway Historical Society started Medford Railroad Park and cares for Medco logging locomotives, cabooses and freight cars, with a dream of a working logging railroad.

Volunteers at the East Troy Railroad Museum run historic electric trolleys and interurban cars on Wisconsin's last interurban line, a seven-mile stretch from 1907 between East Troy and Mukwonago.

Twenty minutes south of Rochester, volunteers at the New York Museum of Transportation run the only electric trolley ride in New York State, plus a big model railroad and the Midtown Plaza Monorail.

North Platte's Union Pacific depot, opened in 1918, was home to the World War II Canteen that greeted millions of service members. The building is gone, but its story is preserved nearby.

On the grounds of the 1909 Tooele Valley Railroad Complex, this free city museum keeps steam engine No. 11, smelter and mining exhibits and a military rail car, open Wednesday to Saturday in summer.

Built in 26 months during the Klondike Gold Rush, the White Pass & Yukon Route climbs almost 3,000 feet in 20 miles out of Skagway. Here are its excursions, 2026 fares and family tips.