Iowa has its own version of the Polar Express. Instead of traveling thousands of miles to the North Pole to meet Santa, he joins you during the hour-and-a-half train ride. Boone and Scenic Valley ...

The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad offers regularly scheduled excursions on its Fraser Train from May through the end of October. Over the 1-hour and 45-minute round trip, the train will traverse ...

Autumn foliage in the countryside next to a railroad track near Boone, Iowa - jholder70/Shutterstock Often dismissed as a sleepy flyover state, Iowa's windswept grasslands are scattered with hidden ...

Ride the rails high above the Des Moines River valley in Boone. Ride the rails high above the Des Moines River valley in Boone.

There’s something about a train ride in the autumn, isn’t there? Rail tracks often pass through places that cars can’t reach, and a cruise on the tracks offers a sense of seeing scenery that’s truly ...