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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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Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Steam Locomotive, Southern Railway 1401

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

Model of the Steam Locomotive, Tom Thumb

Model of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad’s Lancaster

Model of the 1837 Steam Locomotive, H. R. Dunham

Jupiter, Steam Locomotive

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1989

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1920s-40s

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, used on Western Maryland Railroad

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Porter's Cap

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1920s-40s.

Railroad Conductor's Case

Railroad Station Baggage Handler's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Southern Pacific Railroad

Conductor's Cap, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

Locomotive Signal Light Patent Model

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

Standard Trainman, Conductor and Porter's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Conductor, Southern Pacific Railroad

Museum of History and Technology, Railroad Hall

Moving the John Bull

"John Bull" Locomotive Engine

John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

Jupiter Steam Locomotive Train Engine

Installation of Steam Locomotive in NMHT

American Locomotive Shop at Nevers

Jupiter Locomotive, A&I Building

Locomotive "Pioneer," Railroad Hall, NMHT

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