The McKinney Avenue Transit Authority's M-Line Trolley carries riders on restored historic streetcars along 4.6 miles of Uptown and Downtown Dallas, every day of the year, on a name-your-fare basis.

The Kiski Junction Railroad was a 6-mile shortline at Schenley, Pennsylvania, where the Kiskiminetas meets the Allegheny. It hauled freight and, for a time, carried seasonal tourist passengers.

Based at Thomaston Station, the Railroad Museum of New England cares for a large New England collection and runs excursions on its own Naugatuck Railroad through the river valley.

Henderson's Depot Museum began in 1978 with one old railroad station. Today the depot is a hands-on Children's Discovery Center surrounded by twelve historic structures, and admission is free.

The East Broad Top in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, is the oldest narrow gauge railroad in the U.S., with steam train rides, a belt-driven machine shop and a roundhouse left almost untouched since 1956.

Opened in 1881 as the country's first U.S. National Museum, the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building has closed as a museum and will become the permanent home of the National Museum of the American Latino.

A town by town guide to 51 California train museums, from Sacramento's state railroad museum and Gold Country steam to free Los Angeles rail yards, redwood logging trains and San Francisco cable cars.

Kenosha's restored PCC streetcars run a two-mile loop past the Lake Michigan shoreline, HarborPark and downtown, a working city transit line that doubles as a ride through rail history.

From the eight-story Golden Spike Tower in North Platte, Nebraska, families watch Union Pacific crews sort thousands of rail cars a day in Bailey Yard, the largest classification yard in the world.

At History Park in San Jose's Kelley Park, the Trolley Barn restores and displays vintage streetcars, and on weekends they carry families for free along tracks toward Happy Hollow Park and Zoo.

Near Chippewa Lake in Seville, Ohio, volunteers of the Northern Ohio Railway Museum restore and run historic streetcars and interurbans on a demonstration track built along an old interurban line.

Sugar Express runs vintage passenger trains through the sugarcane fields of South Central Florida from Clewiston, Lake Placid and Sebring, with steam locomotive No. 148 on select trips.

The Fillmore & Western Railway ran heritage and film trains on the Santa Clara River Valley line in Ventura County. Here is what it was, what it preserved, and where to see Fillmore rail history now.

At the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., the America on the Move exhibition uses 18 multimedia dioramas to show how road and rail travel reshaped the country.

Run by a volunteer preservation society, the Adirondack Railroad carries riders from Utica's Union Station deep into the Adirondack Park, with trips to Old Forge, Big Moose and Tupper Lake.

In the old four-railroad junction town of North Judson, Indiana, the all-volunteer Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum runs diesel excursions to English Lake and keeps more than 50 pieces of rolling stock.

Eight Montana rail stops in one guide: a narrow gauge train between gold rush towns, a dinner train through a half-mile tunnel, the Northern Pacific's Yellowstone depot and a free museum in Great Falls.

Since August 4, 1974, Conway Scenic Railroad has run heritage trains out of the North Conway station, from a one-hour family ride to Conway to the four-hour Mountaineer through Crawford Notch.

In Douglas, Wyoming, an 1886 passenger depot now doubles as a railroad museum and visitor center, with a steam locomotive and a line of rail cars outside that visitors can explore inside and out.

Mendocino Railway, the California Western Railroad better known as the Skunk Train, traces its Fort Bragg roots to an 1885 logging line, with a model railroad of the old timber world beside its depot.