Train tracks still run through the place where Anita, Indiana, was located. They are now used by the Indiana Rail Road. Google Maps has labeled a random, lonely field just west of Trafalgar “Anita.” ...

While Indiana's electric railway is no more, the trolleys that connected Hoosiers are being rescued. Before the internet, cars, and interstates, trains and trolleys were the kings of connection, ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...