The National Museum of Transportation (NMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1944, 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.

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National Museum of Transportation

A Burlington Zephyr and a Frisco 2-10-0 on display at the National Museum of Transportation.
Overview
Headquarters	Kirkwood, Missouri
Reporting mark	MOTX
Locale	Greater St. Louis
Dates of operation	1944 (1944)–Present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website	www.transportmuseumassociation.org

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.[1] 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

Among its railroad items are:[2]

• Aerotrain No. 3
• The only surviving Milwaukee Road class EP-2 Bi-Polar Electric.
• Union Pacific Big Boy #4006.
• Norfolk & Western Y6a class 2-8-8-2 No. 2156
• Union Pacific Centennial #6944 One of the final Centennial locomotives built.
• Southern Pacific class GS-6 "War Baby" #4460.
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 2-10-4 #5011.
• Chesapeake & Ohio K-4 #2727
• The only surviving EMC 1800 hp B-B locomotive, the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad #50.
• EMD FT #103, the first F-unit built, a National Engineering Landmark.
• Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western 4-4-0C #952, one of two DL&W steam locomotives and one of five Camelbacks in existence.
• Erie Lackawanna EMD SD45 #3607.
• Missouri-Kansas-Texas 4-4-0 #311, the sole surviving M-K-T steam locomotive.
• Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2 #551, the sole surviving C&IM steam locomotive.
• Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (Italian State Railroad) E550.025 electric locomotive.
• New York Central 4-8-2 #2933, one of two surviving examples of large NYC steam power.
• Wabash 2-6-0 #573, one of only two Wabash steam locomotives in existence.
• Union Pacific 900081, a rotary snowplow.
• The Whale, largest tank car ever built.
• A PRR P5 electric locomotive #4700.
• Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #9908 Silver Charger, the locomotive of the General Pershing Zephyr.
• Frisco 1522, used in excursion service from 1988 to 2002.
• Frisco 1621, a sister to 1630 at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
• A PRR GG1 electric locomotive #4918.
• Chicago and Northwestern 4-4-2 #1015, the only surviving Chicago and North Western class D Atlantic.
• New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 4-6-4 #170, the only surviving Nickel Plate L1a hudson.

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  A 1950s GM Aerotrain from the Rock Island railroad.
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  A 4-6-0 Camelback locomotive built by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1873.
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  Only surviving Milwaukee Road class EP-2 electric locomotive.
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  An Erie Lackawanna Railway EMD SD45 restored to its original condition.
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  United States Army gas turbine locomotive 1149d.
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  The 9908 Silver Charger, which drew the General Pershing Zephyr train.
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  Norfolk & Western 2156, the strongest-pulling steam locomotive in existence.
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  USRA Light Mikado steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement.
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  A Southern Pacific GS-6 War Baby steam locomotive 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.
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  Budd-built CB&Q Zephyr diner Silver Spoon.
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  Frisco Number 1621.
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  Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2, Number 551, the sole surviving C&IM steam locomotive.
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  Union Pacific Big Boy Number 4006.

Automobiles

The Earl C. Lindburg Automotive Center contains:

• 1908 Galloway Express truck
• 1901 St. Louis Motor Carriage Company car
• 1963 Chrysler Turbine Car[3]
• 1964½ Ford Mustang
• 1915 Ford Model T
• Bobby Darin's Dream Car a DiDia 150[4]
• St. Louis-built Automobile Gallery.
• 1941 Cadillac Fleetwood Fleetwood Series 60 Special Sedan (featured in front of a rescued and restored unit from the nearby Coral Court Motel)

Other road vehicles

• 1977 Mack RS712LST used in the 1978 film, Convoy. including its on-road movie double, and the only original remaining tank trailer used in the film.

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.

See also

• List of United States railroads
  • List of Missouri railroads
• List of railway museums

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museum of Transportation (St. Louis County, Missouri).

• National Museum of Transportation – Official Website
• HawkinsRails photographs