railroads revolutionized transportation in North America, permanently accelerating the pace of travel across the continent. Today, many of those railroad tracks host an assortment of historic ...

“On a train, everything kind of gears down,” says Jim Loomis, author of All Aboard! The Complete North American Train Travel ... and cars on an 11-mile track through the mountains of West ...

It’s one of scores of old stations from a century ago when passenger trains whistled and hissed along tracks that crisscrossed ... to see the landscape of the American West.