Tracks Ahead

Look at the history of one of the most beautiful diesel locomotives ever built and meet a man who recreates Hollywood magic every day.

Experience the birth of the Wisconsin & Southern, a new railroad built on a part of the old Milwaukee Road.

See how a revolution in model railroad control is allowing multiple train operation on the same track and visit the Utah Belt Railroad in a basement in Missouri.

Experience the beauty of the Irish countryside on a steam trip through the Suir Valley and talk with Shirley Burman, the expert on the role that women have played in railroading.

Tracks Ahead rides the White Creek Railroad, located on one hundred acres in western Michigan.

Take a look at historic and opulent railroad hotels near the Grand Canyon and head to eastern Oregon where volunteers are preserving the steam heritage of the gold fields.

Tracks Ahead visits several fantastic holiday-themed layouts in Cincinnati and visit a garden railroad whose owner has moved tons of rock.

Experience one of the last steam logging railroads in the world, located in a deep mountain valley in Romania. Tracks Ahead visits one of the oldest zoos west of the Mississippi.

Tracks Ahead visits Hamburg, Germany to see the largest HO layout in the world. Visit an O gauge layout which models the three areas of the Grand Canyon state.

Take a trip to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry to see the all new, Great Train Story. Go back in time for a visit to one day in 1938 West Virginia.

Join the Tracks Ahead crew as they explore the Rügenish Kleinbahn on an island in the Baltic Sea. Ride a restored portion of the old Sacramento Northern Railroad.

Tracks Ahead talks with a man whose passion for model trains and the outdoors, has allowed him to combine both into a successful business.

Meet a chef whose passion for garden railroading has resulted in a football field of trains. Visit the Carpathian Mountains to rediscover a gauge line that is undergoing a rebirth.