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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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Railway Post Office train car model

3c Railroad Engineers single

Elevated Turn

29c Toy Steam Engine single

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

Freight Yard

Untitled

Nut Street Station

Steam Locomotive at Crossing

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at the Altoona Repair Facility]

Going West

Waiting for the Local

Shimbashi Station, Tokyo

A Locomotive Over Water

Erie Railroad

Baldwin's Patent Model of a Flexible Beam Locomotive - ca 1842

Engine House and Bunkers

Concerning Railroads

John Henry

Railway timetable

B and O Railroad Centennial Celebration Medal

Locomotive Repair Shop, Nevers

Jupiter, Steam Locomotive

Along the River

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1989

End of the Line (mural study, Valentine, Nebraska Post Office)

Engines and Landscape

“Casey Jones”

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, used on Western Maryland Railroad

Owney the dog

Louisville & Nashville mail car model

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Porter's Cap

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


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