Woonsocket's 1882 brick depot on Depot Square, once called the finest local station in New England, now hosts the Hachiko statue and the departure point for the Blackstone Valley's Polar Express trains.

The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway hauled copper ore from Butte Hill to the Anaconda smelter and ran on electric power from 1913 to 1967. Its route is now a National Register historic district.

A family guide to 6 Hawaii train museums and rail sites on Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island: plantation steam engines, a train ride to Kahe Point, a Hamakua Coast caboose and Maui's sugar story.

Southern Pacific opened this Nacogdoches depot in April 1911 after lightning burned the wooden one. Today the city runs a free transportation museum inside, open Thursday to Saturday.

The Kansas Belle served year-round dinners in vintage cars on the Midland Railway out of Baldwin City, Kansas. It did not return after the 2020 season; here is its story and where to ride now.

A family guide to rail history in Washington, D.C.: real trains under Daniel Burnham's 1907 Union Station ceiling, 18 transportation dioramas at the Smithsonian, and the Smithsonian's first museum building.

At the Williams Grove Historical Steam Engine Association grounds near Mechanicsburg, the Williams Grove Railroad runs Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 643 and two 1953 diesels on show days and at Christmas.

The Northern Pacific Depot Museum in Wallace, Idaho tells the railroad story of the Coeur d'Alene Mining District inside a 1901 chateau-style depot that was picked up and moved in 1986 to make room for I-90.

Run by the Minnesota Transportation Museum, the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway takes vintage trains from Osceola, Wisconsin along the river bluffs and across the state line into Minnesota.

In the village of Arcade, a working short line that still hauls freight runs New York's only regular steam passenger excursions, with steam engine #18 pulling WWII-era coaches to Curriers Depot.

The Heber Valley Railroad, long nicknamed the Heber Creeper, runs restored vintage trains from Heber City around Deer Creek Reservoir and down to Vivian Park in Provo Canyon, with themed trips through the year.

On the east side of Grapevine, the Cotton Belt Railroad Historic District holds the Historic Cotton Belt Depot, where 1920s-era coaches of the Grapevine Vintage Railroad board for trips along the old route.

A family guide to 8 Oklahoma train museums and rail stops in 7 towns: Saturday train rides in Oklahoma City, a free Frisco steam engine on Route 66, model railroads in Enid and Hugo, and the state's only passenger train.

Wolfeboro's railroad story, from the 1868 Wolfeboro Railroad to its last tourist trains, belongs to a town whose history is kept by the Wolfeboro Historical Society at the Clark Museum Complex.

North of Bishop, California, the Laws Railroad Museum & Historical Site preserves the 1883 narrow gauge depot and eleven-acre yard, the Slim Princess locomotive and dozens of Owens Valley pioneer buildings.

The Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad, a working freight shortline near Hershey, runs the narrated Milk & Honey Express, an 11-mile round trip along Swatara Creek and the old Union Canal in 1920s coaches.

Altoona Works was the Pennsylvania Railroad's giant shop complex at the foot of the Alleghenies, where crews built steam engines from 1866 to 1946. Here is its history and how families can see it today.

On Parksley's town square, the Eastern Shore Railway Museum keeps a restored train station and vintage rail cars that tell the story of the railroads on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

At Muddy Creek Forks in York County, Pennsylvania, volunteers keep a turn-of-the-century railroad village alive, with motorcar train rides on the old Ma & Pa main line and a general store that doubled as the station.

On East Main Street in La Grange, Kentucky, the all-volunteer La Grange Railroad Museum and Learning Center offers free admission, model trains, an L&N dining car and caboose, and a weekly playgroup for little ones.