Dan Protess: Peter was the co-founder of the Rails to Trails Conservatory, which is the largest organization advocating for rail-trails in America. He was on the ground floor of the rails-to-trails ...

Isabella Soares is a Senior Writer for Collider, as well as a Cherry Picks-approved critic. A film and TV enthusiast from an early age, Isabella used to write reviews in her journal growing up, which ...

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 ...

Any ferroequinologists in the room? Like famed TikTok star Francis Bourgeois, this is someone who is recreationally interested in trains and rail transport systems. And 2025 is a big year for ...

Apps make it easy to map our own cycling routes, but there’s something special about pedaling along a rail-trail. The new PBS documentary, From Rails to Trails, follows the 60-year fight to convert ...

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 ...

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The film was born out of Peter Harnik’s book “From Rails to Trails: Making of America’s Active Transportation Network.” Harnik, who co-founded the Rails to Trails Conservatory, also serves as an ...