Trains

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

Explore the wide world of miniature trains.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

Train cars and railroad artifacts abound at this restaurant devoted to railway history.

A fantastic example of Victorian railway engineering with two unusual decorative features.

Built in 1945, this historic train station has a new lease on life with its baggage area serving as an event space.