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

Santa Fe

C & O

Train Through Truro

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

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

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

Loco-Erie Watering

Santa Fe

Train and Factory

Elevated Turn

Freight Yard

Untitled

Nut Street Station

Over the Pass

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at the Altoona Repair Facility]

Going West

Waiting for the Local

Erie Railroad

War Voyage

Concerning Railroads

Engines and Landscape

Railroad Station 1880 (mural study, St. Joseph, Missouri Post Office and Courthouse)

Railroad Bridge

Untitled (toy train in motion)

Locomotive CCNJ

The Race

(Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town)

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility]

Locomotive Study (alternate design for mural study, Bowling Green, Kentucky Post Office)

Railroad Sleeping

Train