Abandoned classic cars are usually associated with barns and junkyards, but many of them have been left to rot away in the woods. Some have been discarded so many years ago that you need plenty of ...

A Gloucester County community has come together to restore an 80-year-old locomotive. Locomotive No. 9 was used for 40 years before it was abandoned in the woods for another several decades, left to ...

The state of New Jersey is transforming its abandoned tracks from its long railroad history into beautiful green spaces that ...

At dusk, Sam drives his stolen locomotive, and after crossing countless mountains and rivers that he can see every day, he sees the sea ... Sam Lee was born in an ordinary farmer's house in a ...

Arlyn Colby’s interest in railroad history has culminated in his third book about local abandoned railroads, “The Chippewa Valley Line,” the story of the Chippewa Valley and Superior Railway. The CV&S ...

Deep in the heart of Maine’s Allagash region, two ghost locomotives rest in the wilderness, far from any road or railhead.

Neighbors and city leaders are pushing to transform the abandoned Union Pacific railroads into something new for the ...

From Rails to Trails explores how a passionate group of activists fought to transform railroad corridors into trails now ...

In this week’s Nature column, Peter Marteka describes a visit to the Norfolk Land Trust’s Stoney Lonesome trail along an abandoned section of the early 20th-century New England Railway. The Bottom ...

Apples and railroads were a big deal in Northwest Arkansas in the early 1900s, with rail lines crisscrossing Benton County taking apples from the sprawling orchards to market. One of those lines once ...