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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 in Motion

Train

Santa Fe

American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

2c Empire State Express Train single

C & O

2c Train Invert single

Train in Landscape

Train Through Truro

Postcard of a Pacific-Type Passenger Steam Locomotive

National Museum of History and Technology - "Pioneer" Locomotive

10c Wheat Fields & Train single

Train in Coal Town

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Erie Railroad

Locomotives, Jersey City

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

37c Toy Locomotive single

10c Old and New Locomotive single

Arrival of First Train in Herrington--1885 (mural study, Herrington, Kansas Post Office)

Loco-Erie Watering

Santa Fe

Train and Factory

3c Baltimore & Ohio Railroad single

3c Transcontinental Railroad single

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

25c Trains Crossing Isthmus of Tehuantepec single

5c Mail Train Parcel Post single

3c Railroad Engineers single

Elevated Turn

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

Freight Yard

Untitled

Nut Street Station

Over the Pass


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