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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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Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

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

Jupiter, Steam Locomotive

"Tom Thumb" Locomotive Model

Model of Railroad Sail Car

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