In 2011, MTTV initiated a track extension project intended to connect the line to the Lindburg Automobile Center. As of 2025, this extension remains under construction, but once completed, visitors will be able to travel by trolley between the Roberts building and the automobile building.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Renee |title=Trolley Track Extension Progress |url=https://tnmot.org/trolley-track-extension-progress/ |website=National Museum of Transportation |access-date=8 February 2025 |date=21 October 2021}}</ref> On May 21, 2016, SLPS #1743 returned to service on the 50th anniversary of the end of [[Streetcars in St. Louis|streetcar operations in St. Louis]].<ref name=”aw1743″>{{cite web |title=1743 St Louis PCC |url=https://stlouisnrhs.org/kc1533/webpages/InterurbanCityTransit/PCC1743/1743STLpcc.html |website=stlouisnrhs.org |access-date=8 February 2025}}</ref> In 2024, the line was officially named the ”’Neil F. Norkaitis Demonstration Trolley Line”’ in honor of the former trolley operations director.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary for Neil Norkaitis at Lupton Chapel, Inc. |url=https://www.luptonchapel.com/obituary/neil-norkaitis |website=www.luptonchapel.com |access-date=8 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
In 2011, MTTV initiated a track extension project intended to connect the line to the Lindburg Automobile Center. As of 2025, this extension remains under construction, but once completed, visitors will be able to travel by trolley between the Roberts building and the automobile building.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Renee |title=Trolley Track Extension Progress |url=https://tnmot.org/trolley-track-extension-progress/ |website=National Museum of Transportation |access-date=8 February 2025 |date=21 October 2021}}</ref> On May 21, 2016, SLPS #1743 returned to service on the 50th anniversary of the end of [[Streetcars in St. Louis|streetcar operations in St. Louis]].<ref name=”aw1743″>{{cite web |title=1743 St Louis PCC |url=https://stlouisnrhs.org/kc1533/webpages/InterurbanCityTransit/PCC1743/1743STLpcc.html |website=stlouisnrhs.org |access-date=8 February 2025}}</ref> In 2024, the line was officially named the ”’Neil F. Norkaitis Demonstration Trolley Line”’ in honor of the former trolley operations director.<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary for Neil Norkaitis at Lupton Chapel, Inc. |url=https://www.luptonchapel.com/obituary/neil-norkaitis |website=www.luptonchapel.com |access-date=8 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
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* [[Bi-State Development Agency]] No. 165
* [[Bi-State Development Agency]] No. 165
* Bi-State Development Agency No. 1664
* Bi-State Development Agency No. 1664
Museum in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
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.[1]
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 March through December.
Vehicles and equipment
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The Neil F. Norkaitis Demonstration Trolley Line was originally established in the 1990s. After the museum acquired SLPS #1743 from the San Francisco Municipal Railway, a group of volunteers installed approximately 1,000 feet of overhead wire above a section of the former Union Pacific mainline near the Abbott Building, allowing restored historical trolleys to operate.[3] In 1998, PTC #2740 was fully restored by Museum of Transportation Trolley Volunteers(MTTV) and added to the operating fleet, while #1743 was placed in storage.[4]
In 1997, MTTV began renovating Water Works #10.[5] Although the project was initially intended to be cosmetic, the group decided to undertake a full operational rebuild due to the trolley’s relatively good condition despite decades of inactivity.[6] After three and a half years of work, #10 became operational once again.[5] On Memorial Day 2001, it ran for the first time in 46 years;[7] by the summer of 2002, it had joined MTTV’s active fleet.[6]
Originally, the demonstration trolley line was a straight route, requiring trolleys to travel back and forth. When MTTV acquired some tracks from a streetcar loop in Boston, volunteers opted to add a loop at the east end.[3] Construction began in spring 2002 and was completed in March 2003.[8] As a result, all trolleys except #2740 can run around the loop and back from the direction it came. Around the same time, a high-level platform was built in front of the Roberts Pavilion to accommodate the newly acquired CTA rapid transit car #44 for passenger loading and unloading.
In 2011, MTTV initiated a track extension project intended to connect the line to the Lindburg Automobile Center. As of 2025, this extension remains under construction, but once completed, visitors will be able to travel by trolley between the Roberts building and the automobile building.[9] On May 21, 2016, SLPS #1743 returned to service on the 50th anniversary of the end of streetcar operations in St. Louis.[10] In 2024, the line was officially named the Neil F. Norkaitis Demonstration Trolley Line in honor of the former trolley operations director.[11]
Operational trolleys
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Non-operational trolleys
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- Bi-State Development Agency No. 165
- Bi-State Development Agency No. 1664
- Bi-State Development Agency No. 215
- Bi-State Development Agency No. 60
- Illinois Terminal Railroad No. 104
- Illinois Terminal Railroad No. 410
- Illinois Traction System No. 241
- Purdue University No. 2611
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 1001
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 1005
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 215
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 2250
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 426
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 615
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 850
- St. Louis Public Service Company No. 894
- St. Louis Waterworks Railway No. #17
Among its railroad items are:[16]
- 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.
- Sabine River & Northern Railroad EMD NC #408. Originally built in 1937 as EJ&E #202.[1]
- 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[17]
The Earl C. Lindburg Automotive Center contains 25 vehicles,[18] including:
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.[21]
Beginning in June 2024, employees from Boeing volunteered to restore an F/A-18 Super Hornet that will eventually be displayed at the museum. This particular fighter is the F/A-18 E1, the first F/A-18 Super Hornet ever made.
- ^ “St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24 Jul 1994, page Page 33”. Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ^ “Barretts Tunnels”. Abandoned Rails. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- ^ a b “What’s New – On-going Track Work!”. Museum of Transportation – Trolley Volunteers. Archived from the original on November 6, 2002.
- ^ “1743 St Louis PCC”. stlouisnrhs.org. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ a b “WaterWorks #10”. stlouisnrhs.org. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ a b c Cordes, Bill (2004). St. Louis Water Works Railway. Saint Louis, Mo: Tower Grove Press. ISBN 9780976026600.
- ^ “Water Works #10”. Museum of Transportation – Trolley Volunteers. Archived from the original on October 30, 2002.
- ^ “What’s New – On-going Track Work!”. Museum of Transportation – Trolley Volunteers. Archived from the original on April 17, 2003.
- ^ Hughes, Renee (October 21, 2021). “Trolley Track Extension Progress”. National Museum of Transportation. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “1743 St Louis PCC”. stlouisnrhs.org. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “Obituary for Neil Norkaitis at Lupton Chapel, Inc”. www.luptonchapel.com. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “St. Louis Public Service Co. #1743”. National Museum of Transportation. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “PTC 2740 Home”. stlouisnrhs.org. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “Chicago Transit Authority 44”. www.bera.org. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “Kansas City Public Service 1533”. The CityRails Transit Photo Archive. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
- ^ “Railway Equipment”. The National Museum of Transportation. National Transport Museum Association. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- ^ Hughes 2, Renee (October 4, 2022). “Virgin Hyperloop Pegasus Pod at TNMOT!”. National Museum of Transportation. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ “St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 Jun 2018, page H01”. Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ^ Lassa, Todd (July 21, 2006). “Road Test: 1964 Chrysler Turbine Car”. Motor Trend. Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- ^ Vaughan, Daniel (March 2010). “1960 Di Dia 150 – Overview”. Conceptcarz.com. Retrieved June 22, 2022.
- ^ “St. Louis Post-Dispatch 25 Jun 2021, page G10”. Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
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