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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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Santa Fe

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Train in Landscape

Postcard of a Pacific-Type Passenger Steam Locomotive

Mystery Train

22c Stourbridge Lion booklet single

22c John Bull booklet single

11c Railroad Caboose coil single

13.2c Coal Car single

Santa Fe

21c Railroad Mail Car single

2c Locomotive single

22c Best Friend of Charleston booklet single

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Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1989

Moving the John Bull

John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

2c Locomotive coil single

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