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.

Trains at Smithsonian Station

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American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Platform step stool used by Pullman Palace Car Company

Erie Railroad

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

Railway Post Office train car model

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at the Altoona Repair Facility]

Baldwin's Patent Model of a Flexible Beam Locomotive - ca 1842

Locomotive Repair Shop, Nevers

Untitled

Owney the dog

Louisville & Nashville mail car model

3c Steam Locomotive essay

Locomotive Signal Light Patent Model

Central Pacific Railroad mail car model

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

Burlington mail car model

Nashville, Tennessee Owney tag

Uniform cap owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas

Train Landscape in Arizona

Baldwin Locomotives

Assembling Locomotives at St. Nazaire

American Locomotive Shop at Nevers

Elevation View of a Locomotive, First Prize Drawing

One of the Locomotive Shops Near St. Nazaire

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility]