The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT ) is a private, 42-acre
transportation museum in the
Kirkwood suburb of
St. Louis, Missouri . Founded in 1944,
[1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States. The museum is also home to a research library of transportation-related memorabilia and documents.
At the southwest corner of the property is
West Barretts Tunnel . Built in 1853, it is one of a pair of
tunnels that were the first to operate west of the
Mississippi River .
[2] It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The museum has its own railway
spur to an active main line formerly owned by the
Missouri Pacific Railroad , now by the
Union Pacific Railroad . This has allowed the museum to take possession of large and unusual pieces of railroad equipment. A
miniature railroad operates around a loop of track near the parking lot and a full-sized restored
trolley operates Thursday–Sunday from April through October.
Vehicles and equipment
Railroad
The museum's grounds include Barretts Tunnel, one of the first railroad tunnels west of the
Mississippi River .
Among its railroad items are:
[3]
Aerotrain No. 3
The only surviving
Milwaukee Road class EP-2 Bi-Polar Electric.
Union Pacific Big Boy
No. 4006 . The largest steam locomotive of the museum's collection.
Norfolk & Western Y6a class
2-8-8-2
No. 2156 . The only surviving Norfolk & Western Y6a and the second largest steam locomotive in the collection.
Union Pacific Centennial No. 6944. One of the final Centennial locomotives built.
Southern Pacific class GS-6 "War Baby"
No. 4460 , the sole surviving GS-6.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
2-10-4 No. 5011.
Chesapeake & Ohio
K-4 No. 2727
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad No. 50. The only surviving
EMC 1800 hp B-B locomotive
EMD FT No. 103, the first F-unit built, a National Engineering Landmark.
Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western
4-4-0C No. 952, one of two
DL&W
steam locomotives and one of five
Camelbacks in existence.
Erie Lackawanna
EMD SD45 No. 3607.
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
4-4-0 No. 311, the sole surviving
M-K-T
steam locomotive .
Chicago & Illinois Midland
2-8-2 No. 551, the sole surviving
C&IM
steam locomotive .
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (Italian State Railroad) E550.025
electric locomotive . The only locomotive brought from outside the United States of America.
New York Central
4-8-2
No. 2933 , one of two surviving examples of large
NYC steam power.
Wabash
2-6-0 No. 573, one of only two Wabash
steam locomotives in existence.
Union Pacific No. 900081, a
rotary snowplow .
The Whale, largest
tank car ever built.
A
PRR P5
electric locomotive No. 4700. The sole surviving P5.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad No. 9908 "The Silver Charger" , the locomotive of the
General Pershing Zephyr .
St Louis - San Francisco No. 1522 , used in
excursion service from 1988 to 2002.
St. Louis - San Francisco 1621, a sibling to
1630 at the
Illinois Railway Museum in
Union, Illinois .
A
PRR GG1
electric locomotive No. 4918.
Chicago and Northwestern
4-4-2 No. 1015, the only surviving
Chicago and North Western class D Atlantic.
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 4-6-4 No. 170, the only surviving Nickel Plate L1a Hudson.
Hyperloop One ∞ XP-2
[4]
Automobiles
The engine compartment of a 1963
Chrysler Turbine Car displayed inside the museum.
The Earl C. Lindburg Automotive Center contains 25 vehicles,
[5] including:
Boats and aircraft
On display are a
Missouri River
towboat and two airplanes: a
C-47 Skytrain at the main gate and a
T-33 Shooting Star .
In 2021, the museum opened a permanent exhibition of some 100
model airplanes donated by
Sanford McDonnell , each with a connection to the
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation .
[8]
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