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The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

Step aboard PBS’s From Rails to Trails. The documentary premiering October 15 tracks the 60-year struggle of one of America’s most unlikely grassroots movements. Narrator Edward Norton plays conductor ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A financial settlement has been reached with some of the landowners along a stretch of rail line in southeastern South Dakota that is no longer used for railroad purposes and has ...

The Oscar-nominated actor narrates the PBS documentary 'From Rails to Trails', which chronicles the 60-year movement to create public spaces around America Samir Hussein/WireImage Edward Norton says ...

There are 26,000 beautiful miles of rail-trails in America and so many great stories to tell and so many more I’d like to have told. But I focused on the larger points about the movement. We started ...