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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

Train in Coal Town

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Erie Railroad

Locomotives, Jersey City

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

Freight Yard

Nut Street Station

Engine House and Bunkers

War Voyage

John Henry

Untitled

Along the River

End of the Line (mural study, Valentine, Nebraska Post Office)

Engines and Landscape

Railroad Bridge

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