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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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Erie Railroad

Union Pacific Rail Road Train Wagon

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

Railroad Track Signal

22c Stourbridge Lion booklet single

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

29c McQueen's Jupiter booklet single

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

22c John Bull booklet single

11c Railroad Caboose coil single

Loco-Erie Watering

13.2c Coal Car single

Santa Fe

21c Railroad Mail Car single

Train and Factory

2c Locomotive single

3c Baltimore & Ohio Railroad single

A Distant View Of Kanasugibashi

3c Transcontinental Railroad single

Baltimore & Chicago fast train car model

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22c Locomotive "Gowan & Marx" booklet single

22c Locomotive "Brother Jonathan" booklet single

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