United States
275 places to explore across spots, experiences, journeys, and mega-projects in United States.
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Spots (241)
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New River Bridge
New River, Tennessee, United States
The New River Bridge carries Norfolk Southern CNO&TP freight across a 1,622-foot cantilever truss standing 307 feet above the gorge — the t…
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Kinzua Bridge
Hamlin Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Completed in 1882 as the world's tallest railroad bridge and engineered by Octave Chanute, Kinzua Viaduct was partially toppled by an F1 to…
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Van Buren (UP/KCS)
Van Buren, Arkansas, United States
Van Buren's restored 1901 Frisco depot anchors a genuine two-railroad town: Union Pacific freight rolls through on its main line while the…
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Vickers (Toledo Junction)
Northwood, Ohio, United States
Vickers (Toledo Junction) is a grade diamond crossing in Northwood, Ohio where Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line meets CSX's Toledo Terminal…
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Vancouver (Columbia R. Crossing)
Vancouver, Washington, United States
BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6, the first railroad bridge across the lower Columbia River, carries BNSF, Union Pacific, and Amtrak trains between…
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Williams (Grand Canyon Ry)
Williams, Arizona, United States
Williams Depot is the southern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway, a 64-mile heritage line running daily to the Grand Canyon South Rim si…
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Vincennes (Rail Crossing)
Vincennes, Indiana, United States
Two CSX lines — the Illinois and CE&D subdivisions — meet at the Vincennes Interlocking diamond crossing. Trains slow to 25 mph through dow…
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White Pass (WP&YR)
Skagway, Alaska, United States
The White Pass & Yukon Route climbs 2,888 feet in 20 miles on 3-foot narrow-gauge track to the summit at Mile 20.4, crossing the 215-foot s…
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Vicksburg (Miss. River Bridge)
Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States
The Old Vicksburg Bridge (1930) carries CPKC's Meridian Speedway freight trains across the Mississippi River on a single-track cantilever l…
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Waco (BNSF/UP)
Waco, Texas, United States
Downtown Waco sits on Union Pacific's former Katy Railroad main line, where UP freight and BNSF trains with trackage rights roll through th…
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Waynoka (Santa Fe)
Waynoka, Oklahoma, United States
Waynoka's restored 1910 Santa Fe Depot and Harvey House border BNSF's Southern Transcon (Panhandle Subdivision), where 70–100 trains pass d…
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Williams Loop (Feather River)
Spring Garden, California, United States
Williams Loop is a one-mile rail spiral on Union Pacific's Feather River Route in Plumas County, where the track crosses over itself to gai…
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Wishram (BNSF Gorge)
Wishram, Washington, United States
Wishram sits at one of the Pacific Northwest's premier railfan junctions: the BNSF Fallbridge Subdivision threads the Columbia River Gorge…
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Two Medicine Trestle
East Glacier Park, Montana, United States
Two Medicine Trestle is a 761-foot steel deck truss bridge carrying BNSF's Northern Transcon 153 feet above the Two Medicine River, just ea…
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Staples (BNSF Staples Sub)
Staples, Minnesota, United States
The historic 1909 Northern Pacific depot in Staples sits on the BNSF Northern Transcon where the Brainerd Subdivision diverges, drawing 40–…
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Scottsbluff (Coal Route)
Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States
BNSF freight corridor through Nebraska's panhandle where coal trains from Wyoming's Powder River Basin roll past the dramatic sandstone blu…
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Selma (Rail Junction)
Selma, North Carolina, United States
Selma Union Depot occupies the diamond crossing of CSX's A-Line and Norfolk Southern's H-Line. One of five US stations with both N/S and E/…
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Sandusky (Bayview)
Sandusky, Ohio, United States
At the Bayview approach to Norfolk Southern's Sandusky Bay causeway, freight trains and Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited transition from 1.17 mi…
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Skyline Trestle (Mullan Pass)
Skyline (near Helena), Montana, United States
A curved steel trestle spanning Austin Creek on BNSF's former Northern Pacific mainline over Mullan Pass, offering dramatic views of heavy…
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Sherman Hill summit
Buford, Wyoming, United States
Triple-track Union Pacific mainline summit at 8,015 feet on the Overland Route between Cheyenne and Laramie. One of the busiest freight cor…
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Tulsa (BNSF/UP)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
BNSF's Cherokee Yard — a working hump yard where three ex-Frisco routes converge — anchors one of Oklahoma's busiest freight corridors with…
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Selkirk Yard (Albany)
Selkirk, New York, United States
CSX Transportation's primary classification hub for the Northeast, Selkirk Yard sits 8 miles south of Albany on 1,250 acres in the Hudson V…
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Springfield (CSX/Amtrak)
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Springfield Union Station is the busiest Amtrak stop outside Greater Boston, where CSX's Boston and Berkshire Subdivisions meet the Hartfor…
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Texarkana (Union Station)
Texarkana, Arkansas/Texas, United States
Texarkana Union Station is a 44,000-square-foot Renaissance Revival depot that literally straddles the Arkansas-Texas state line. Opened in…
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Experiences (27)
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Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum
Sugarcreek, Ohio, United States
The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum sits on a 34-acre site on Smokey Lane Road SW outside Sugarcreek, in the heart of Ohio's Tuscarawas Coun…
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Tiny Town & Railroad
Morrison, Colorado, United States
Tiny Town & Railroad is a miniature village of more than 100 hand-built structures at one-sixth scale, set on a wooded site at 6249 South T…
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Miniature Railroad & Village at Kamin Science Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
The Miniature Railroad & Village at the Kamin Science Center (formerly the Carnegie Science Center) is one of the oldest and most detailed…
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Choo Choo Barn - Traintown U.S.A.
Strasburg, Pennsylvania, United States
The Choo Choo Barn - Traintown U.S.A. is a 1,700-square-foot (158 m2) animated model railroad display in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, on Route…
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TrainTastic
Gulfport, Mississippi, United States
TrainTastic, operated by the Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum, occupies a 50,000-square-foot (4,645 m2) building at 615 Pass Road in…
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Northlandz
Flemington, New Jersey, United States
Northlandz is a model railroad layout and museum in Flemington (Raritan Township), New Jersey, billed as the World's Largest Miniature Wond…
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Grand Central Terminal Official Tour
New York, New York, United States
Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913, the product of two firms working in tandem: Reed and Stem devised the overall plan and i…
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Golden Spike National Historical Park
Promontory, Utah, United States
Golden Spike National Historical Park preserves 2,735 acres (1,107 ha) around a 15-mile (24 km) segment of the original first transcontinen…
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Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark
Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States
The Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve carved into the front of the Allegheny Mountains in Logan Township, about 5 miles (8 km…
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Golden Spike Tower & Visitor Center
North Platte, Nebraska, United States
The Golden Spike Tower and Visitor Center is an eight-story observation tower on the south edge of Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Pla…
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Southern California Railway Museum
Perris, California, United States
The Southern California Railway Museum (SCRM, reporting mark OERX) sits on more than 100 acres in Perris, in Riverside County's Inland Empi…
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National Museum of Transportation
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre museum founded in 1944 on Barrett Station Road in west St. Louis County…
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Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City
Carson City, Nevada, United States
The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City preserves the rolling stock and locomotives of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, the line th…
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Gold Coast Railroad Museum
Miami, Florida, United States
The Gold Coast Railroad Museum sits at 12450 SW 152nd Street in southern Miami-Dade County, on the grounds of the former Naval Air Station…
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North Carolina Transportation Museum
Spencer, North Carolina, United States
The North Carolina Transportation Museum occupies the former Southern Railway Spencer Shops, the railroad's largest steam-locomotive servic…
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Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
Founded as a local project in 1973, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum occupies the lower level of Duluth's Historic Union Depot (the St. Lo…
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St. Charles Streetcar Line
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
The St. Charles Streetcar Line, officially Route 12 of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA), is the oldest continuously operati…
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Powell-Mason Cable Car Line
San Francisco, California, United States
The Powell-Mason line (shown as line PM on the Muni map) is the oldest of San Francisco's three surviving cable car routes, running essenti…
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B&O Railroad Museum
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
The B&O Railroad Museum occupies the original Mount Clare Shops in southwest Baltimore, the 40-acre site where the Baltimore & Ohio Railroa…
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New York Transit Museum
Brooklyn, New York, United States
<p>The museum’s entrance leads two flights down into a historic 1936 subway station. The New York Transit Museum (NYTM) is devoted to the h…
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Powell–Hyde Cable Car Line
San Francisco, California, United States
<p>The Powell–Hyde line carries visitors from the bustling heart of downtown San Francisco over Nob Hill and Russian Hill to the bayfront a…
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Chicago “L” (Orange Line)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Orange Line is an elevated rapid transit route in Chicago, operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). It runs 13 miles from <stro…
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Granite State Scenic Railway
Lincoln, New Hampshire, United States
<p>Nestled at the southern gateway to New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the Granite State Scenic Railway winds along the Pemigewasset River…
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Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Durango, Colorado, United States
<p data-start="419" data-end="1150">The <strong data-start="442" data-end="497">Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNGRR)…
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Journeys (6)
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California Zephyr
United States
The California Zephyr is Amtrak's most popular long-distance train, running 3,924 km from Chicago to Emeryville (San Francisco) through som…
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Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
United States
Built in 1880 as the Denver & Rio Grande's San Juan Extension, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad runs 64 miles (103 km) of 3-ft narrow g…
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Mount Washington Cog Railway
United States
Operating since July 3, 1869, the Mount Washington Cog Railway is the world's first mountain-climbing rack-and-pinion railway and the secon…
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White Pass & Yukon Route — Summit Excursion
United States
Heritage 914 mm narrow-gauge round trip from Skagway to the White Pass Summit at 873 m. Designated an International Historic Civil Engineer…
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Grand Canyon Railway
United States
Opened in 1901, the Grand Canyon Railway carries passengers 65 miles from Williams, Arizona to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park…
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Strasburg Rail Road
United States
A 45-minute, 9-mile round-trip steam excursion through Lancaster County Amish farmland aboard the oldest continuously operating standard-ga…