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The Cincinnati Bluffton & Chicago Railroad

The Illinois & Michigan Canal

The Forgotten Railways of Chicago: Pilsen

A Ghostly Fire: The Borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania

Area 51's Now-Abandoned Railroad

The World's First Suspended Coaster: Way Older Than You Think

Abandoned Railroad Lines in New Mexico

The Marble Line: The Manchester, Dorset & Granville Railroad

The Englewood Trail: Soon to be Chicago's Newest Rail Trail and Linear Park!

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie's Block 61 Trail

Old Renwick Road Bridge

The Forgotten Railways of Chicago: Illinois' Addison Railroad and the Illinois Central West Line

The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster: Industrial Power, Hidden Labor, and a Mountain That Killed

The Rise and Fall of Geneva Steel - A Utah Landmark in Vineyard, UT

Egypt's El Ferdan Railway Bridge - A Restored Transcontinental Railroad (Updated January 2026)

The Dodge City Montezuma & Trinidad Railway

Why H.R. 4924 Threatens the Spirit of the Rails-to-Trails Movement

The Cemetery in a Roundabout: Harrison-Harrell Cemetery.

Well We’re Living Here in Oniontown

Beneath the Pavement: Hidden History in Cook County’s Parcel Fabric

The Hanford Site

The Impulsoria: A Horse Powered Railway Engine

The Missouri Southern Railroad (Updated by Brisan Comstock March 2025)

The Toronto Railway Museum

How the AI Boom Repeats the Mistakes of Abandoned Railroads

The Locomotive Graveyard of Uyuni, Bolivia

Lockport's Abandoned Bridge Over the Des Plaines: Division Street Bridge

The Famine Roads of Ireland: Pathways to Nowhere

Old Chicago Amusement Park: An Idea Ahead of its Time

The World's Southernmost Railway: The Puerto Deseado Railway

Wolf Road Prairie: An Abandoned Housing Development Turned Forest Preserve

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

Trestle Park in Milwaukee

A Preservation Success Story: Lyman Woods Forest Preserve

The Rise and Fall of the Pacific Electric Railway: Lessons for Modern Transit

The Indiana Division or Coal Branch of the Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad

Wildlife Crossings over Roads: Designing Transportation With Nature

Quebec's Abandoned Wooden Railways (by Alain Bernier)

Our June 2024 update to the Abandoned Railroad Map

The Model Railroad Garden at Chicago Botanic Gardens

The Milwaukee Menomonee Falls & Western Railroad

Logging Railroad Lines in General and the Weyerhaeuser Company in Particular

The Newcastle & Frenchtown Railroad

The Pleasant Prairie Power Plant Redevelopment

The Iroquois Theatre Fire: A Forgotten Tragedy That Changed Fire Safety Forever