What to do at all 7 Heartland Flyer stops between Oklahoma City and Fort Worth with kids: a four-hour double-decker day train with a toy museum, a steam engine, the Red River and the Stockyards.

What to do at all 43 Texas Eagle stops between Chicago and San Antonio with kids, plus the Los Angeles through cars: one night aboard, a 45-minute pause in St. Louis, Dallas to Fort Worth as a first ride, bats in Austin, and the River Walk at the end.

What to do at all 22 Sunset Limited stops between New Orleans and Los Angeles with kids: bayous the first morning, West Texas desert the second, a new children’s museum in El Paso, Tucson, and a 5:35am arrival.

What to do at all 46 Empire Builder stops between Chicago and Seattle or Portland with kids: two nights aboard, Glacier National Park, the longest tunnel in the country, the Columbia Gorge, and the stops to sleep through.

What to do at all 32 Southwest Chief stops between Chicago and Los Angeles with kids: two nights aboard, Kansas City’s Science City, Raton Pass, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, the Grand Canyon from Flagstaff, and which stops to sleep through.

What to do at all 35 California Zephyr stops between Chicago and Emeryville with kids: two nights aboard, canyon day out of Denver, a hot springs pool, the Sierra, and which stops to sleep through.