Today, we visited the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis, so it’s a lot of photos and all about trains, cars, a couple of trucks and a C-47. Enjoy.
Model trains at the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis.
Back to the Future!
A model theme park and a model railroad!
Another model railroad!
Dad and the steamroller.
This pulled boats through the Panama Canal.
Retro modern.
Modern and steam at opposite ends.
A Wabash Cannonball.
New York steam.
It’s the Union Pacific Big Boy, and my Dad.
Who’s that in the engineer’s seat?
My Dad at the throttle of the Union Pacific Big Boy. Or is that the Johnson Bar or the brake?
Here I am standing by the driving wheels of the Union Pacific Big Boy.
Need to use the bathroom in a passenger car on a train?
Another bathroom in a passenger car, the sink lifts up so you can get to the commode.
An executive’s sleeping area in a private car.
Fine dining in the executive car.
The china closet in the executive car.
This is where they would grill the steaks for the executives in the private car kitchen.
Another bathroom in another passenger car.
Berthing bunks in a Pullman car.
A private room in a Pullman car.
Passenger seats in a passenger car.
Baggage anyone?
The oldest steam train at the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis.
A unique engine and passenger conveyance on the rails.
How to get rid of snow on the road. The back section would be loaded with rock to weight the car down and it would be pushed by a locomotive through the snow covered tracks.
A different way to remove snow. It would be pushed too. Can you read the numbers on the ladder on the side of the machine?
Here are those numbers, they would indicate the depth of the snow alongside the tracks in feet.
A unique engine and passenger train.
The price of gas on this pump is 29 cents a gallon.
A neat and old car.
This car belonged to Bobby Darin.
Car Car
This is an electric car.
I get my kicks…
A 57 Chevy.
Yep, a cool original Mustang.
These cars are cool.
Drove my Chevy to the Levee…
Studebaker!
Wish I had this car.
A Model A.
Not sure I would want this motorized bike.
A Stanley Steamer.
A Corvette!
A Peddler’s Truck. They sold produce out of trucks like these.
A milk wagon. This was the way they delivered it.
Bring out your dead!
A tug boat that used to ply the Mississippi River.
Yes this is a Douglas C-47 Cargo Plane, a real work horse of the skies.
That’s it for today. A ton of photos. Tomorrow, the Gateway Arch and a bridge that has the same name as my father!