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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

32c Electric Toy Trains single

Train

Santa Fe

American-type Locomotive Model, without Tender

2c Empire State Express Train single

C & O

Cumberland Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive, Pioneer

32c "The Great Train Robbery" single

2c Train Invert single

Train

Train in Landscape

Train Through Truro

Postcard of a Pacific-Type Passenger Steam Locomotive

10c Wheat Fields & Train single

Railroad train passing by Takanawa

Railroad Train At Shiodome Station

Steam Locomotive, John Bull

Train in Coal Town

Stamp with illustration of a green toy train with red wheels and multicolored vertical stripes

29c Toy Train Enging booklet single

Sketch for mural of The Mail Train

Railroad Train At Takanawa Beach, Tokyo

33c Daylight single

Erie Railroad

Locomotives, Jersey City

Thirty-six views of Modern Tokyo: Shinbashi train station

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

37c Toy Locomotive single

10c Old and New Locomotive single

22c Stourbridge Lion booklet single

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

29c McQueen's Jupiter booklet single

22c John Bull booklet single

11c Railroad Caboose coil single

Loco-Erie Watering


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