Tourist Railroads
Leisure Trips
- Accent on Travel...travel agency specializing in individual rail trip bookings; includes links to tour operators and clients’ trip reports.
- America By Rail...group tour operator providing full-escorted tours in the United States and Canada.
- Grand Luxe Rail Journeys...providing luxury train service on an excursion schedule (formerly American Orient Express)
- Rail Travel Center...group tour operator that provides fully escorted tours in the United States and Canada and Europe.
- The Society of International Railway Travelers...Monthly
publication specializing in rail adventures around the world; includes
several club rail tours around the world, many to very exotic or unique
destinations.
- USA By Rail...Homepage for a complete guidebook to train travel in the United States, also available at the NARP Bookstore.
Historical and Railfan organizations
- National Railway Historical Society...a non-profit, educational group with many chapters across the country
- John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library...part
of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St.
Louis, has several collections of interest to railroad history
reasearch (including a large archive donated by the Association of
American Railroads)
- The Morse Telegraph Club, Inc....an
international non-profit organization dedicated to the perpetuation of
the knowledge and traditions of telegraphy and American Morse Code.
- 20th Century Railroad Club...Based
in Chicago, this large organization draws both people who are
interested in trains as a hobby, and those who want to preserve and
expand scheduled services