Museum of Transportation
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The Museum of Transportation on 3015 Barrett Station Road, St. Louis, Missouri has a wide variety of vehicles from American history. In addition to antique cars, boats and a plane, the museum's most sizable collection is locomotives and railroad equipment from a wide area of the United States.
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[edit] Railroad
The museum has its own railway spur to an active Union Pacific Railroad main line (formerly Missouri Pacific Railroad). This has allowed the museum to receive both large and unusual pieces of equipment into its collection:
- The only surviving Milwaukee Road class EP-2 Bi-Polar Electric
- Union Pacific Big Boy #4006
- Union Pacific Centennial #6944
- a demonstrator F unit
- a rotary snowplow
- The Whale, largest tank car ever built
- a New York Central 4-8-2 Mohawk
- the locomotive of the General Pershing Zephyr
...and much more.
At the corner of the property is the first railroad tunnel built west of the Mississippi River. Built in 1853, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The museum also operates a miniature railroad and a full-size trolley on a seasonal schedule.
[edit] Automobiles
The recently remodeled Earl C. Lindburg Automotive Center contains some unusual pieces:
- 1908 Galloway Express truck
- 1959 Ford gas turbine truck
- 1901 St. Louis Motor Carriage Company car
- 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car
- 1964½ Ford Mustang
- 1915 Ford Model T
- Bobby Darin's Dream Car
[edit] Boats and Planes
There is a Mississippi River tugboat and one airplane on display.
