Railroads

The railroad turning train travel into a cinematic, highly immersive experience has a fascinating connection to Game of Thrones.

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.

For 14 years, this former stray dog greeted every train passenger that arrived in Fort Collins.

Japan Railways' southernmost train station offers a view of a volcano and a mailbox said to grant happiness.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

Delaware's first railroad lasted only five years and spanned only 16 miles, but its ticket office has survived for two centuries.

Constrained by time and topography, this civil engineering landmark was constructed 100 feet above Starrucca Creek over the course of a single year.

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.

An unsuspecting brick building outside Orlando houses decades of train ephemera.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

Evanston's historic railroad complex saved this rail town from reaching the "end of the line."

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

A wide array of locomotives call this outdoor museum home.

One of the last "timber railroads" in the United States was finally abandoned in 1957.