After having their credit card-sized golden tickets punched by conductor (and engineer) John Simanton, Inland Northwest Rail Museum visitors exit the main museum building just outside Reardan.

In the opening moments of Train Dreams — both the film and the Denis Johnson novella it’s based on — it’s 1917. In the ensuing years (mainly through the 1940s, plus a few scenes in the late ’60s) we ...

When it comes to the locations where Train Dreams was shot, much was done on private property, where owners opened their doors to the production. However, there are also plenty of locations scattered ...