It was once a busy branch of the Long Island Rail Road. Now, coyotes prowl one of New York City’s last wild places. What will it become next?

Passenger service at the depot ended shortly after World War II, but the Rock Island Railroad still maintained offices in the building until 1960. After the railroad went out of business around ...

Here’s where to find space, how to get there without stress, and exactly where to stay if your day trip turns into a weekend ...

After graduating from high school in Allen, Oklahoma, Richard worked for the Rock Island Rail Road in Howe. At the boarding house where ... 11 years until his health required him to change his line of ...

A YouTuber has explored an abandoned railway tunnel, part of a disused Oldham railway line affectionately known ... Some people have also commented on the lack of rail infrastructure in Oldham ...

But to the west, a back door of sorts: Arizona’s remote San Rafael Valley rolls out, fortified by a chest-high fence of ...

The scene, with the rusting frame of a tire swing above and crowd-control barriers all around, could be an establishing shot for a film about an abandoned ... hired a light-rail expert from ...

Charles Jacobs begins work on the Long Island Railroad's tunnel under the East River. Hampered by fatal accidents and the financial setbacks of the Panic of 1893, the project is abandoned before ...

We know what a post-car city could look like, since parts of it were mapped out in detail before the future got indefinitely ...

After the fall of Manila, MacArthur retreated to this rocky island fortress. Then, two and a half months later, on March 11, 1942, he abandoned ... of the former rail line.

rock shops selling petrified-wood souvenirs, and abandoned buildings. The wind whipped up miniature tornadoes of dust along the railroad tracks. There was a general air of faded Americana.