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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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Railroad Bridge

Conductor's Cap, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

3c Steam Locomotive essay

Beggs No. 2 Toy Steam Locomotive

Locomotive Signal Light Patent Model

Bassett-Lowke Toy Steam Engine

3c Transcontinental Railroad 75th Anniversary single

Pennsylvania Railroad Coast to Coast in 48 Hours

New York, Rio, & Buenos Aires Line Inc. Rail-Air-Service to South America

Central Pacific Railroad mail car model

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

Standard Trainman, Conductor and Porter's Cap

Untitled (toy train in motion)

Toy train car with print of grafitti artwork by Dondi White

Toy Road Roller

Locomotive CCNJ

Locomotive Along the Yokohama Waterfront

25p Locomotive #60149 In Kings Cross Station single

35p Locomotive Entering Station single

Model of Railroad Sail Car

Museum of History and Technology, Railroad Hall

Railroad Cap Badge, Conductor, Southern Pacific Railroad

The Race

Museum of History and Technology, Railroad Hall

Burlington mail car model

Nashville, Tennessee Owney tag

Lake Shore & Michigan Fast Mail train model

Trains

The A Train

Train Landscape in Arizona

Moving the John Bull

"John Bull" Locomotive Engine

John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

Baldwin Locomotives

Jupiter Steam Locomotive Train Engine


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