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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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The Last Spike

American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

Train

A Distant View Of Kanasugibashi

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at the Altoona Repair Facility]

A Locomotive Over Water

Railroad Conductor's Case

3c Steam Locomotive essay

Central Pacific Railroad mail car model

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

Locomotive Along the Yokohama Waterfront

The Transit of an American Steam Locomotive

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility]

cut out used on transcontinental line

Cross-section of transcontinental telegraph system pole

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