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Trains at Smithsonian Station

Pack your bags and take a trip on the many rails throughout our collections. These trains hail from all over the country and across the globe, traveling over artists’ canvasses and through the mail. Learn more about trains in America on the Move at the National Museum of American History. While you are reading, enjoy Train Tracks: A Transcontinental Railroad Playlist from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.


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Toy Train

The Last Spike

Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

Train

Tracks Are Back! Amtrak

Railroad Watch

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Steam Locomotive, Southern Railway 1401

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

Train Conductor's Ticket Punch

Railroad Track Signal

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

Model of the Steam Locomotive, Tom Thumb

Model of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad’s Lancaster

Model of the 1837 Steam Locomotive, H. R. Dunham

Steam Locomotive at Crossing

Baldwin's Patent Model of a Flexible Beam Locomotive - ca 1842

Locomotive Repair Shop, Nevers

Jupiter, Steam Locomotive

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1989

“Casey Jones”

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1920s-40s

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, used on Western Maryland Railroad

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Porter's Cap

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1920s-40s.

Railroad Conductor's Case

Railroad Station Baggage Handler's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Southern Pacific Railroad

Conductor's Cap, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

"Tom Thumb" Locomotive Model

Beggs No. 2 Toy Steam Locomotive

Locomotive Signal Light Patent Model

Bassett-Lowke Toy Steam Engine

Wooden chip cut from a railroad tie, Promontory, Utah, 1869


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