There are certainly a lot of railroad / railway webpages, message boards and Facebook pages out there. More enough to keep a railfan busy. I am a member of several. Pages like the Chicago and North Western Historic Society, Trains, Trains, Trains, railfans etc etc. My favorite pages are the more local pages that recognize and keep the history of railroads and particularly interurban lines alive. Many of these pages are filled with old train photos, railroad research and the priceless personal accounts of riding the rails.
One of my favorite railway facebook pages is the DesMoines Streetcar Friends a page which is dedicated to the interurban lines which brought transportation to the people who lived in central Iowa.
I have been doing my own research about the the Fort Dodge and Southern Line which ran from fort Dodge through the farm towns into Des Moines. some of the original track for that old interurban line is still in existence. And the members of the Des Moines Streetcar friends speak of the experiences of growing up along the old interurban trolley lines
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