Steam Engine Clipart: 30 Vintage Railway Designs with Locomotives, Full Trains, Christmas Trains, Signs, Tracks and a Trestle

Deep forest-green panels, black ironwork and thin copper-gold trim along the boiler bands and wheel rims are the only three colors used across these 30 steam engine pictures. There is no red, blue or bright cartoon color anywhere in the set, so an engine, a sign and a piece of track can share one page without clashing.

Engines from the side, the front and coming toward you

01 to 05 are side views: a tender engine with its coal car, a tank engine, a long mountain hauler trailing steam, a narrow-gauge engine with a tall chimney, and a streamlined express with a rounded casing and gold speed lines. 06 faces you straight on, cowcatcher at the bottom, and 07 approaches at an angle with smoke pouring back over the cab. Four more engines close the set (27–30): a long-boilered side view, a second front view with a cloud of steam, an engine with its coal tender and one seen from the cab end.

Trains with their cars

08 to 11 are whole trains, each pulled by a different engine. 08 has two passenger coaches, 09 carries logs and a crate on flatcars, 10 pulls a round tank wagon and 11 is the streamlined engine with a flatcar and a caboose. They are long and low, which suits a border along the bottom of a page or a banner.

Christmas on the rails

20 is a freight train carrying wrapped presents and a small tree, 21 is the front-view engine with a wreath hung on the smokebox, and 22 is a winter passenger train with a tree and a gift at the back. They keep the same green and gold as the rest, so the presents, tree and wreath are what make them Christmas.

Signs, stacks and the line itself

Three pieces of lettering are drawn as railway signs: a round STEAM JOURNEY emblem with TAKE THE SCENIC WAY under a short rail, a RAILWAY WORKSHOP plate marked POWERED BY STEAM, and a six-sided EXPLORE BY RAIL badge with a star. 12 and 13 are lone smokestacks, one flared and one straight, each with puffs of steam on top. 17 is a curved length of track, 18 a cross-braced trestle bridge with rails across the top, and 19 a junction where one line splits off.

Four engines for a child’s room

23 to 26 are chunkier and simpler: a storybook engine with a tall funnel, a boxy toy engine with its smoke drawn as an outline, a tiny engine puffing a white cloud, and a little engine pulling a car with a gold star in it. All four are drawn without faces.

Full color, in layers

The set has no single-color version. Each format folder holds the same 30 color designs, and the DXF files keep their contours separated by color, so a cut project means one layer per color. The guide suggests keeping important gaps at least 0.06 inch (1.5 mm) and enlarging the more detailed engines; steam puffs, lettering and wheel parts come away as separate small pieces that may need transfer tape. Its starting widths are 10 to 11 inches for an adult shirt, 7 to 8 inches for a child’s shirt and 5 to 7 inches on a card.

Questions

Can I cut these in a single color?

Not as supplied. Every file is full color, and in the DXF and SVG files the green, black and gold are separate groups of shapes. Plan a layered project with one material per color, or print the PNG instead.

Do the file names follow the design numbers?

Yes. Each file starts with its number, such as 18-railway-trestle, and Design-Index.txt gives the full name of all 30.