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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

Thirty-six views of Modern Tokyo: Shinbashi train station

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

Railroad Track Signal

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

Shimbashi Station, Tokyo

Jupiter, Steam Locomotive

Owney the dog

Central Pacific Railroad mail car model

"John Bull" Locomotive Engine

Model of Trevithick Locomotive

Elevation View of a Locomotive, First Prize Drawing

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