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 large and unusual pieces of railroad equipment into its collection:

...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:

[edit] Boats and Planes

There is a Missouri River tugboat and two airplanes on display, a DC-3 at the main gate and a T-80 (or something similar) near the scale model railroad

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