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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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Along the River

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1989

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

Engines and Landscape

Railroad Station 1880 (mural study, St. Joseph, Missouri Post Office and Courthouse)

“Casey Jones”

Railroad Hand-Signal Lantern, 1920s-40s

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.

Railroad Conductor's Case

Railroad Station Baggage Handler's Cap

Railroad Cap Badge, Brakeman, Southern Pacific Railroad

Railroad Bridge

Conductor's Cap, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

"Tom Thumb" Locomotive Model

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


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