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National Museum of Transportation

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Located on over 40 acres, the Museum is approximately 16 miles southwest of downtown St. Louis, on a site which includes one of the two first man-made railroad tunnels west of the Mississippi River. The Museum site also features more than four miles of switching and exhibition track. Additionally, the Museum houses a nationally acclaimed research library of transportation-related memorabilia and documents.

With over 70 locomotives, half of them "one-of-a-kind" or "sole survivors" of their type, the Museum has one of the most complete collections of American railroad motive power. Our collections of automobiles, buses, streetcars, aircraft, horse-drawn vehicles, and riverboat materials are constantly expanding to reflect the ever-changing nature of transportation.

National Museum of Transportation

nmt_state egyptian he National Museum of Transportation is a 42-acre private transportation museum in Kirkwood, Missouri, southwest of downtown St. Louis. Founded in 1944, the private museum restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of transportation equipment spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States. The museum houses a research library of transportation-related memorabilia and documents. The site includes more than 4 miles of switching and exhibition track, including an active interchange spur to the mainline of the Union Pacific Railroad is maintained, formerly with the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A miniature railroad operates around a loop of track near the parking lot and a full-sized restored trolley operates seasonally from April through October.

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Only a sampling of the museum's large collection is shown here, items of particular interest to HawkinsRails

Steam Locomotives

Chicago & Illinois Midland #551

  • builder:Lima Locomotive Works
  • arrangement:2-8-2 "Mikado"
  • class:USRAl
  • built:Sep 1928, Lima #7330
  • fuel:coal/water
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    New York Central #2933

  • builder:ALCO (Schenectady)
  • arrangement:4-8-2 "Mohawk"
  • class:L-2d
  • built:1929, Alco #68126
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • cosmetic restoration
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    St. Louis-San Francisco #1621

  • builder:Baldwin Locomotive Works
  • arrangement:2-10-0 "Russian Decapod"
  • class:Russian
  • built:1918, Baldwin #48420
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • blt 5' broad gauge for Russia
  • ex Southern Railway
    ex Missouri-Kansas-Texas
    ex Ft. Smith, Subiaco & Rock Island
    ex Eagle-Picher
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    Union Pacific #4006

  • builder:ALCO (Schenectady)
  • arrangement:4-8-8-4 "Big Boy"
  • class:48841
  • built:Oct 1941, Alco #69577
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • 24x32" cylinders, 68" drivers
    total weight 772,250 pounds
  • 1 of 25 produced for Union Pacific
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    bigboy The 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement was unique to both the United States and to the Union Pacific Railroad. No other railroad and no other country made locomotives anything like these. Many consider the 4-8-8-4s or "Big Boys" to be the largest steam locomotives ever built in the entire world. It would be hard to argue differently.

    When the Union Pacific created plans to have a locomotive designed that could haul 3,600 ton trains unassisted over the Wahsatch Mountains east of Ogden, UT, they had plans to give the name "Wahsatch" to this wheel arrangement. However, during the construction of the first of these locomotives, an ALCO machinist wrote the words "Big Boy" on the smokebox of the locomotive. The name stuck and became the name of this locomotive type.

    ALCO built 25 of these locomotives for the Union Pacific at a cost of about $265,000 each. Based on inflation, the equivalent amount of money in 2018 would be $4,700,000 per locomotive.

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    Wabash #573

  • builder:Rhode Island Loco Works
  • arrangement:2-6-0 "Mogul"
  • class:F-4
  • built:1899, RILW #3147
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • cosmetic restoration
  • Diesel Locomotives

    Arkansas & Missouri #22

  • builder:American Locomotive Co.
  • model:RS-1
  • type:B-B road switcher
  • built:Apr 1943, Alco #70811
  • series:469 produced 1941-60
  • engine:Alco 539T, 1000hp
  • notes:
  • blt Atlanta & St Andrews Bay #905
    to Maryland & Delaware #22
    to Arkansas & Missouri #22
    to National Museum of Transportation
  • Until retirement, the oldest domestic road switcher in service. builder
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    See also our complete Arkansas & Missouri roster scrapbook in Shortlines

    Chicago, Burlington & Quincy #9908 “Silver Charger”

  • builder:Electro Motive Corporation
  • model:model
  • type:A1A-2 passenger power
  • built:1939
  • series:1 of 9 CBQ integrated trains
  • engine:EMC 567 (12 cyl, 1000 hp)
  • notes:
  • last shovel nose design produced
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    The General Pershing Zephyr was the ninth of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Zephyr streamliners, and the last built as an integrated streamliner rather than a train hauled by an EMD E-unit diesel locomotive. It was constructed in 1939 with bodywork and passenger cars by Budd Company and diesel engine, electric transmission, power truck, and other locomotive equipment by General Motors Electro-Motive Corporation. Because its intended Kansas City, Missouri to St. Louis, Missouri route passed near the birthplace and boyhood home of famous World War I General John J. Pershing, the train was named after him. The power car was named Silver Charger, after Pershing's horse Charger, while the passenger cars were named after U.S. Army badges of rank — Silver Leaf, Silver Eagle, and Silver Star.

    The power car, 9908 Silver Charger, was unique. It utilised a single new EMC 567 V-12 engine developing 1,000 hp, rather than the pair used in the contemporary EMC E3. It had one Martin Blomberg-designed E-unit A1A passenger truck at the front, with powered outer axles and a center idler axle, and an unpowered trailing truck, giving it the unusual wheel arrangement of A1A-2. This made it mechanically half of an E3. The back half of the power car was a baggage area. This made it similar to special power-baggage units built by EMD for the Colorado Springs section of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific "Rocky Mountain Rocket", though the latter had a carbody and E-3/E-6 styling by EMD. The "Silver Charger" was the last power unit built by Budd with the unique "Zephyr / Flying Yankee" shovelnose styling.

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    Erie-Lackawanna #3607

  • builder:Electro Motive Division
  • model:SD45
  • type:C-C road switcher
  • built:Jun 1967, EMD #33107
  • series:1260 produced 1965-71
  • engine:EMD 645E3 (20 cyl, 3600 hp)
  • notes:
  • blt Erie-Lackawanna #3607
    to Conrail #6072
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    General Motors #103

  • builder:Electro Motive Corporation
  • model:FTA
  • type:B-B freight power
  • built:1939
  • series:555 produced 1939-45
  • engine:EMD 567 (1300 hp)
  • notes:
  • General Motors demonstrator set
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    The EMD FT is a 1,350-horsepower (1,010 kW) diesel-electric locomotive that was produced between March 1939 and November 1945, by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC), later known as GM Electro-Motive Division (EMD). The "F" stood for Fourteen Hundred (1400) horsepower (rounded from 1350) and the "T" for Twin, as it came standard in a two-unit set. The design was developed from the TA model built for the C,RI&P in 1937, and was similar in cylinder count, axle count, length and layout. All told 555 cab-equipped "A" units were built, along with 541 cabless booster or "B" units, for a grand total of 1,096 units. The locomotives were all sold to customers in the United States. It was the first model in EMD's very successful F-unit series of cab unit freight diesels, and was the locomotive that convinced many U.S. railroads that the diesel-electric freight locomotive was the future. Many rail historians consider the FT one of the most important locomotive models of all time.

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    Sabine River & Northern #408

  • builder:Electro Motive Corporation
  • model:NC
  • type:B-B yard switcher
  • built:May 1937, EMC #651
  • series:1 of 5 produced 1937-8
  • engine:Winston 201-A (12 cyl, 900 hp)
  • notes:
  • 1 of 5 rare NC model built by EMC
    cast frame instead of welded
  • blt Youngstown & Northern #202
    to Elgin, Joliet & Eastern #408
    to Marinette, Tomahawk & Western #408
    to Sabine River & Northern #408 builder
  • Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific #E-2

  • builder:General Electric
  • model:EP-2 "Bipolar"
  • type:1B+D+D+B1 electric
  • built:1919, GE #6979
  • series:1 of 5 produced 1919
  • power:12 370hp traction motors
  • notes:
  • only unit of 5 not scrapped
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    cmgE2a The Milwaukee Road's class EP-2 comprised five electric locomotives built by General Electric in 1919. They were often known as Bipolars, which referred to the bipolar electric motors they used. Among the most distinctive and powerful electric locomotives of their time, they epitomized the modernization of the Milwaukee Road. They came to symbolize the railroad during their nearly 40 years of use, and remain an enduring image of mainline electrification.

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    Illinois Terminal #206

  • builder:White
  • model:G
  • type:rail motorbus
  • built:1939
  • series:________________
  • notes:
  • used on Alton-Grafton, IL line
  • Joplin-Pittsburg #2003

  • builder:Plymouth Locomotive Works
  • model:OE 70 ton
  • type:B-B industrial switcher
  • built:1936
  • engine:propane (400 hp)
  • St. Louis Water Division #1

  • builder:Whitcomb Locomotive Works
  • model:SRD 15 ton
  • type:B truck industrial switcher
  • built:date
  • series:________________
  • engine:mechanical clutch drive
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    Rolling Stock

    Miniature Railroad

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    Kirkwood, Mo / Jun 2018 / RWH

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    This page was updated on 2018-12-21