National Museum of Transportation

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The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) 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. 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.

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St. Louis Waterworks Railway car #10 operating at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a>, in St. Louis, Missouri. No. 10 is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban" class="extiw" title="en:Interurban">interurban</a> car built in 1914 by the St. Louis Car Company.

One of the Barretts tunnels, the first railroad tunnels west of the Mississippi in the U.S., located on the grounds of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a>, some old railroad equipment of which is stored in the tunnel.

A 44-ton <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine_locomotive" class="extiw" title="en:Gas turbine locomotive">gas turbine locomotive</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="extiw" title="en:St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>. The #1149 was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Tom_Sawyer" class="extiw" title="en:R. Tom Sawyer">R. Tom Sawyer</a> and built by Davenport-Bessler Corp in 1952. It is powered by two Boeing 502-2E jet engine-type gas turbines. No modifications have been made to this image following capture by the camera.

The Silver Charger, power car of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Pershing_Zephyr" class="extiw" title="en:General Pershing Zephyr">General Pershing Zephyr</a> train. Powertrain by EMD; bodywork by Budd. Located at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="extiw" title="en:St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRA_Light_Mikado" class="extiw" title="en:USRA Light Mikado">USRA Light Mikado</a> steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whyte_notation" class="extiw" title="en:Whyte notation">wheel arrangement</a>, located at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="extiw" title="en:St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, MO</a>. Contrast was adjusted to lighten the shadows; otherwise the image is exactly as recorded by the camera.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Road_class_EP-2" class="extiw" title="en:Milwaukee Road class EP-2">E-2</a> gearless bi-polar electric locomotive of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Road" class="extiw" title="en:Milwaukee Road">Milwaukee Road</a>, currently located at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="extiw" title="en:St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>

Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" #4006, preserved by the Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Category:Trains

Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2, Number 551, the sole surviving C&IM Steam locomotive, on display at the Museum of Transportation outside St. Louis, Missouri

Frisco Locomotive Number 1621 on display at the Museum of Transportation outside St. Louis, Missouri, USA

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Pacific_4460" class="extiw" title="en:Southern Pacific 4460">Southern Pacific 4460</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a>.

Engine compartment of a 1963 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car" class="extiw" title="en:Chrysler Turbine Car">Chrysler Turbine automobile</a>

CTA car 44 in the St. Louis Transportation Museum.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_%26_Western_2156" class="extiw" title="en:Norfolk & Western 2156">Norfolk & Western 2156</a>, a 2-8-8-2 steam locomotive on display at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a>.

A 4-6-0 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelback_locomotive" class="extiw" title="en:Camelback locomotive">camelback locomotive</a> built by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1873. Photographed at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Transportation" class="extiw" title="en:National Museum of Transportation">Museum of Transportation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="extiw" title="en:St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>. This image is a composite of three photos taken in a series vertically in order to cover the whole machine in the cramped area of the shed where this loocmotive is housed. The result is severe barrel distortion from the extremely short effective focal length produced by the process. The original images were resized with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick" class="extiw" title="en:ImageMagick">ImageMagick</a> and processed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hugin_(software)" class="extiw" title="en:hugin (software)">hugin</a> to create the composite, which was cropped with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP" class="extiw" title="en:GIMP">GIMP</a>, which created the final <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG" class="extiw" title="en:JPEG">jpeg</a> file. No other processing or modifications were done to produce this image.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,_Rock_Island_and_Pacific_Railroad" class="extiw" title="en:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad">Rock Island</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrain_(GM)" class="extiw" title="en:Aerotrain (GM)">Aerotrain</a> No. 3 at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation.

Burlington Zephyr set next to a Frisco 2-10-0 This is the General Pershing Zephyr. See <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Pershing_Zephyr-Silver_Charger_-_20081123.jpg" title="File:General Pershing Zephyr-Silver Charger - 20081123.jpg">File:General Pershing Zephyr-Silver Charger - 20081123.jpg</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Pioneer_Zephyr" class="extiw" title="w:en:Pioneer Zephyr">Pioneer Zephyr</a> is at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Museum_of_Science_and_Industry_(Chicago)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)">Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Lackawanna_Railway" class="extiw" title="en:Erie Lackawanna Railway">en:Erie Lackawanna Railway</a> Classic SD45 Beautifully repainted to its original colors / St.Louis Museum of Transportation

<p>This Burlington Zephyr dining car <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.burlingtonroute.com/docs/rosters/remain_passenger.html">Silver Spoon</a> belongs to the National Museum of Transport in St. Louis. It was part a later vintage of Zephyr trains, which had more conventional cars. The original Burlington Zephyrs from the mid/late 1939s were fixed trainsets with a set of wheels joining each pair of cars, rather than each car having two sets of wheels. The Budd Company built this dining car in 1938; it seated 48 and was numbered as CB&Q #192.
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The cars in the background were from other railroads, and would not have been part of a Zephyr. The second might be Baltimore & Ohio.

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