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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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Train in Motion

Train in Landscape

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Arrival of First Train in Herrington--1885 (mural study, Herrington, Kansas Post Office)

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Nut Street Station

Over the Pass

Going West

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End of the Line (mural study, Valentine, Nebraska Post Office)

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, used on Western Maryland Railroad

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Porter's Cap

Railroad Station Baggage Handler's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Southern Pacific Railroad

Conductor's Cap, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

Standard Trainman, Conductor and Porter's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Conductor, Southern Pacific Railroad

The Race

(Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town)

Locomotive Study (alternate design for mural study, Bowling Green, Kentucky Post Office)

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