Great Allegheny Passage | 'Investment' in recreation: Abandoned railroad beds now utilized as popular hiking, biking trails
No one can pinpoint when the decision was made to convert abandoned railroad beds in southwestern Pennsylvania and northern Maryland into hiking and biking trails. But when the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal ...
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Fall is when this New Hampshire rail-riding attraction “shines”
Gary LeBlanc, owner of Scenic RailRiders in Concord, explains why he opened his business and what he loves about it.
This $7 Million Manhattan Condo Has a Massive Terrace Inspired by the High Line Park
Nestled within The Caledonia in West Chelsea, the four-bedroom apartment sits above the 1.5-mile-long elevated greenway.
Homeless people removed from South MS land as neighbors report gunshots, machete wielder
There’s abandoned buildings we could use for the homeless. They’re pushing us away and we have nowhere to go,” said a ...
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The forgotten history of Sussex's disused railway stations
Being the first country in the world to have a "modern" railway - with iron tracks and a steam locomotive, many of Britain's ...
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Rail-Trail Origins in the United States and Cass County
Many of us are familiar with the history of railroads in this country. We’ve seen photos of railroads being built; we’ve ...
Hope, Arkansas: Bill Clinton put it on the map; residents are working to preserve it
President Bill Clinton, Gov. Mike Huckabee, a White House chief of staff and Calif. Sec. of State were all born here ...
Ride through Upstate NY wine country with the only rail bike history tours in the U.S.
Finger Lakes Rail Riders in Penn Yan claims to be the only rail bike company in America which provides a historical narration ...
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Twenty-Six Years After They Were Stranded There By Floods, The Balloon Track’s Zombie Trains Are Finally Moving Out — Mostly in Pieces
They’ve been there so long that they’ve kind of just blended into the legend and lore of the Eureka waterfront, but those ...
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Every track IndyCar no longer races at — and why they fell off the calendar
IndyCar CEO Mark Miles publicly slammed the idea that the series should return to any of the “old” tracks on which it used to compete, and that the series should always be looking forward to ...
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Big Boy steam locomotive to roll through the area
Area railroad enthusiasts will get an unique opportunity to catch a glimpse of Union Pacific Railroad's Big Boy steam engine ...
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Pennsylvania ‘train in my yard’ railroad, nearly killed by Hurricane Agnes, turns 140 years old; $1.40 train rides
STEWARTSTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — It’s far from Pennsylvania’s only historic railroad, but it might be the only one that snakes through the front and back yards on homes — and certainly the only ...