Heritage railroads keep the Old West alive across the United States You never forget your first ride on steam-driven historic train. From Alaska to...
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Working on the Railroad
James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway from Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, to Seattle, Washington, was completed on January 6, 1898, although...
Best of the West: True Westerner
The Man Who Loves the West: Al Harper is True West’s 2024 True Westerner of the Year “I fell in love with trains when my dad gave my brothers and me...
Punch Your Ticket!
Escape to America’s favorite heritage railway towns from coast to coast for adventure and fun for all ages. Amtrak serves 500 American...
All Aboard!
All Aboard! South Dakota photographer John C.H. Grabill’s 1891 image of a Burlington and Missouri River Railroad passenger train on Horseshoe Curve...
Big, Bigger, Biggest
It doesn’t get much sweeter than this in rural Nevada. They probably pulled $10 million in copper out of the mines around McGill, Nevada, in its...
Fred Harvey and his Harvey Houses
Before the days of railroad dining cars, passengers were forced to eat in the local hash houses wherever the train happened to stop. The food was...
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Towering pines whirl past an open window ushering in pine-scented breezes. The click-clack of train wheels underneath relaxes riders. Puffs of...
Wichita, Kansas
The once wild and woolly cowtown still celebrates its Old West heritage. The arrival of the railroad in 1872 transformed this trading post...
Robbing Trains Ain’t Rocket Science
Not everyone was cut out to be a train robber as it did require a certain amount of talent. A couple of Cochise County cowboys-turned-train robbers...