A new PBS doc narrated by Edward Norton follows the 60-year fight—and triumph— to convert abandoned railroads into trails for ...
GRAND LEDGE, Mich. (WLNS) — Get moving, get biking! That’s the motto of a young Grand Ledge woman who plans to create a new kind of biking industry in the Great Lakes State. Macie Hefron, 21, says she ...
This 565-mile "dream highway" spans from Clarks Summit to New Castle in Pennsylvania and sees 550,000 drivers daily. In 2027 ...
New Jersey is crisscrossed by old abandoned rail lines that are no longer in use. Some of them are being targeted for possible hiking trials or even brought back as light rail lines. But in the ...
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Meet us on the rail trail

Step onto a rail trail in your community, and you’ll see parents teaching children to ride bikes, retirees walking together at sunset and neighbors greeting neighbors. These trails are not red or blue ...
The Petite Ceinture or Little Belt railway is a 17-mile long abandoned rail line circling within Paris. Built between 1852 and 1869, the railway served as a fortification around the city and a ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — A long stretch of abandoned ...
KROŚCIENKO, POLAND - In a remote mountainous province in the southeast tip of Poland, surrounded by snow and bare trees, 11 burly men in orange suits are hard at work. They are rushing to rebuild an ...
Fresh calls have been made to turn Norfolk's disused railway lines into routes pedestrians and cyclists could use to get between towns and villages.
Against the backdrop of the snow-capped Pyrenees mountains, deep in the Aragon valley, lies an imposing, beautiful building. Welcome to Canfranc Station, once an abandoned railway station, now a ...