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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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For Speed and Comfort South African Railways & Airways

Trains

The A Train

Train Landscape in Arizona

Moving the John Bull

Postcard of the Original John Bull Engine

"John Bull" Locomotive Engine

John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

Baldwin Locomotives

Jupiter Steam Locomotive Train Engine

Installation of Steam Locomotive in NMHT

Shimmying a Giant Locomotive Out of a Museum

Assembling Locomotives at St. Nazaire

American Locomotive Shop at Nevers

Jupiter Locomotive, A&I Building

Model of Trevithick Locomotive

The Transit of an American Steam Locomotive

Locomotive "Pioneer," Railroad Hall, NMHT

Manufacturer's Photograph of K4s Class Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad

Design for K4s Class Streamlined Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad

Elevation View of a Locomotive, First Prize Drawing

One of the Locomotive Shops Near St. Nazaire

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility]

Trains

Final Tissue for Creation of Illustration of Streamline K4s Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad

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

Plasticine Wind Tunnel Model for a Streamlined K4s Class Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad

cut out used on transcontinental line

Cross-section of transcontinental telegraph system pole

Railroad Sleeping

Train

America'S Getting Into Training Amtrak


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