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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

Train in Motion

The Last Spike

32c Electric Toy Trains single

Santa Fe

American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

2c Empire State Express Train single

C & O

Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

32c "The Great Train Robbery" single

2c Train Invert single

Train

Train in Landscape

Trains

Train Through Truro

Postcard of a Pacific-Type Passenger Steam Locomotive

Tracks Are Back! Amtrak

National Museum of History and Technology - "Pioneer" Locomotive

10c Wheat Fields & Train single

Railroad Watch

Mystery Train

Railroad train passing by Takanawa

29c Toy Train single

"The Trail Blazer, First De Luxe All-Coach Train Daily between Chicago and New York" Pennsylvania Railroad poster for 1939 World's Fair

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Train in Coal Town

Steam Locomotive, Southern Railway 1401

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company

Stamp with illustration of a green toy train with red wheels and multicolored vertical stripes

29c Toy Train Enging booklet single

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

33c Daylight single

Erie Railroad

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

Locomotives, Jersey City


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