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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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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

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

29c McQueen's Jupiter booklet single

Plantation Locomotive, Olomana

Loco-Erie Watering

Train and Factory

3c Baltimore & Ohio Railroad single

A Distant View Of Kanasugibashi

3c Transcontinental Railroad single

Baltimore & Chicago fast train car model

33c Congressional single

29c Eddy's No. 242 booklet single

33c 20th Century Limited single

33c Hiawatha single

33c Super Chief single

32c Streamline Design single

29c Hudson's General booklet single

Promotional photograph from the film Journey By Train

First-class (37c) Toy Locomotive single

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Famous Scenes of Tokyo (Shinbashi Station)

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Railway Post Office train car model

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Elevated Turn

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Model of the 1837 Steam Locomotive, H. R. Dunham

Freight Yard


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