Just as travelers have done since 1901, you can arrive at one of the most beautiful places on earth via train, thanks to the Grand Canyon Railway. Until 1927, the train was how most people arrived at the Grand Canyon—aboard a steam engine of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. But in 1968, as private automobiles became the preferred mode of travel, the trains stopped. They would have stayed stopped except for the time, love and finances of Max and Thelma Biegert—they reopened th


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