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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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Railroad train passing by Takanawa

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Erie Railroad

Railway Post Office train car model

Freight Yard

Over the Pass

Erie Railroad

Owney the dog

Locomotive CCNJ

(Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town)

Nashville, Tennessee Owney tag

Train Landscape in Arizona

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