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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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Toy train car with print of grafitti artwork by Dondi White

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

The Race

(Study for mural, The Railroads Came to Town)

Museum of History and Technology, Railroad Hall

Nashville, Tennessee Owney tag

For Speed and Comfort South African Railways & Airways

Trains

The A Train

Train Landscape in Arizona

Moving the John Bull

Postcard of the Original John Bull Engine

Baldwin Locomotives

Shimmying a Giant Locomotive Out of a Museum

Assembling Locomotives at St. Nazaire

American Locomotive Shop at Nevers

37c Toy Locomotive single

2c Locomotive coil single

Model of Trevithick Locomotive

The Transit of an American Steam Locomotive

One of the Locomotive Shops Near St. Nazaire

[Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotive at Altoona Repair Facility]

Trains

Locomotive Study (alternate design for mural study, Bowling Green, Kentucky Post Office)

cut out used on transcontinental line

Cross-section of transcontinental telegraph system pole

Railroad Sleeping

Train

America'S Getting Into Training Amtrak


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