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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

Train

Trains

Tracks Are Back! Amtrak

National Museum of History and Technology - "Pioneer" Locomotive

Railroad Watch

Mystery Train

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, Southern Railway 1401

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

Train Conductor's Ticket Punch

Railroad Track Signal

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

Baltimore & Chicago fast train car model

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

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

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

Owney the dog

Louisville & Nashville mail car model

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


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