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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

American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

2c Empire State Express Train single

Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

2c Train Invert single

Postcard of a Pacific-Type Passenger Steam Locomotive

National Museum of History and Technology - "Pioneer" Locomotive

10c Wheat Fields & Train single

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company

Erie Railroad

White Mountain Train, from the album Views of Charlestown, New Hampshire

37c Toy Locomotive single

10c Old and New Locomotive single

3c Baltimore & Ohio Railroad single

3c Transcontinental Railroad single

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

25c Trains Crossing Isthmus of Tehuantepec single

5c Mail Train Parcel Post single

Railway Post Office train car model

3c Railroad Engineers single

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at the Altoona Repair Facility]

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

Locomotive Repair Shop, Nevers

Untitled

Owney the dog

Louisville & Nashville mail car model

3c Steam Locomotive essay

Locomotive Signal Light Patent Model

3c Transcontinental Railroad 75th Anniversary single

Central Pacific Railroad mail car model

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

Toy train car with print of grafitti artwork by Dondi White

Museum of History and Technology, Railroad Hall


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