On Portland's waterfront, the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum runs historic two-foot gauge cars on a 40-minute narrated ride beside Casco Bay, past lighthouses, forts, marinas and a beach.

The Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad carried lumber and grain over Oregon's Coast Range along the Salmonberry River until a 2007 storm washed out the line. Here is its story and how to see the coastal track today.

In Granby, the Moffat Road Railroad Museum pairs Colorado's largest permanent Christmas model train display with real railroad equipment, a 1902 depot and a Family Train Ride that opened in August 2026.

In East Windsor, the Connecticut Trolley Museum gives visitors a 3-mile round trip on a restored trolley over an old Hartford and Springfield line, with more than 70 rail vehicles and a fire truck museum on site.

Rawlins' 1901 Union Pacific depot served rail passengers for most of the 20th century. Today the city rents it for gatherings, and Depot Park next door makes a pleasant stop downtown.

In Kennebunkport, Maine, the Seashore Trolley Museum gives rides on restored early 1900s trolleys, opens three carhouses and a restoration shop, and runs a year-round Maine Central model railroad.

In a 1950s diesel shop high in the Sierra, the volunteer-run Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola lets visitors climb into locomotive cabs, ride caboose trains and even rent a diesel to run.

Inside the former Central of Georgia passenger depot, the Savannah History Museum tells the city's story from its earliest days, with an early 20th century steam locomotive among the exhibits.

On Aquidneck Island, the Newport & Narragansett Bay Railroad runs vintage train excursions along Narragansett Bay between Portsmouth and Newport, formed from the old Newport Dinner Train and Old Colony and Newport Scenic Railway.

The Kansas City Southern Historical Society keeps the story of the KCS Railway alive with locomotive rosters, blueprints, history pages and a yearly convention, and points fans to KCS depots they can still visit.

Ride the 1896 trolley car that once crossed the Bridge of Flowers, pump a hand car and play with toy trains at the volunteer-run Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum in western Massachusetts.

The Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad runs about 120 miles of former Union Pacific branch lines in southwestern Idaho and eastern Oregon, and for years it also ran the Thunder Mountain Line excursions.

Volunteers in Toppenish, Washington, saved a boarded-up 1911 Northern Pacific depot and filled its yard with freight cars, passenger cars and steam engine No. 1364, which steamed again in 2026.

Alabama's train museums range from the state's official railroad museum in Calera to a free O scale layout in Foley, a Welsh steam line near the Gulf and pre-Civil War depots in Huntsville and Scottsboro.

Between Suisun City and Rio Vista, the Western Railway Museum runs 50-minute electric interurban rides over the old Sacramento Northern main line and displays more than 50 historic streetcars and rail cars.

Since 1974, volunteers at the Whitewater Valley Railroad have run vintage diesels and open-window coaches along the Whitewater Canal towpath between Connersville and Metamora. Here is what to know, including the 2026 flood.

Founded in 1961, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga runs vintage trains through the Missionary Ridge Tunnel and the Hiwassee River Gorge, with an exhibit hall and working shops.

Alabama's official railroad museum, in Calera, pairs free depot exhibits and a yard of historic equipment with Saturday rides on the Calera & Shelby Railroad and a busy calendar of holiday trains.

Housed in Temple's historic Santa Fe depot and still shared with Amtrak, the Temple Railroad & Heritage Museum pairs Santa Fe history exhibits with a steam Pacific, diesels, sleepers and cabooses.

New Hampshire has the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway, lakeshore trains and a steam logging engine in Lincoln. Find 11 train museums and rides across 10 towns.