Trolleys A working trolley line was established in the 1990s after the museum acquired SLPS #1743 from the
San Francisco Municipal Railway. A group of volunteers installed about 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. In 1998, PTC #2740 was restored by Museum of Transportation Trolley Volunteers and added to the operating fleet, while #1743 was placed in storage. In 1997, MTTV began renovating Water Works #10, at first cosmetically, and then mechanically. by the summer of 2002, it had joined the museum's active fleet. 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 began adding track to connect the line to the Lindburg Automobile Center, enabling visitors to ride the trolley between the Roberts building and the automotive exhibits. The project remains uncompleted as of 2025. On May 21, 2016, SLPS #1743 returned to service on the 50th anniversary of the end of
streetcar operations in St. Louis. In 2024, the line was named the Neil F. Norkaitis Demonstration Trolley Line after the former trolley operations director.
Operational trolleys Non-operational trolleys •
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
Railroad , one of the first railroad tunnels west of the
Mississippi River. Among its railroad items are: •
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.*
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 File:Aerotrain 1950's stylin'.jpg|A 1950s GM
Aerotrain from the
Rock Island railroad. File:B+O 173 camelback locomotive.jpg|A
4-6-0 Camelback locomotive built by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1873. File:E-2 Bi-polar.jpg|Only surviving
Milwaukee Road class EP-2 electric locomotive. File:Erie Lackawanna 3607.jpg|An
Erie Lackawanna Railway EMD SD45 restored to its original condition. File:Gas turbine locomotive 1149.jpg|
United States Army gas turbine locomotive 1149d. File:General Pershing Zephyr-Silver Charger - 20081123.jpg|The 9908 Silver Charger, which drew the
General Pershing Zephyr train. File:N+W 2156 steam locomotive.jpg|
Norfolk & Western 2156, the strongest-pulling steam locomotive in existence. File:USRA Light Mikado locomotive.jpg|
USRA Light Mikado steam locomotive with a
2-8-2 wheel arrangement. File:Southern Pacific 4460.jpg|A Southern Pacific GS-6 War Baby steam locomotive
4-8-4 wheel arrangement. File:Burlington Zephyr dining car Museum of Transportation St. Louis.jpg|
Budd-built CB&Q Zephyr diner Silver Spoon. File:Frisco1621.jpg|
Frisco Number 1621. File:C&IM551.jpg|
Chicago & Illinois Midland 2-8-2, Number 551, the sole surviving C&IM steam locomotive. File:Big Boy 4006.jpg|
Union Pacific Big Boy Number 4006. File:Sabine River & Northern EMD NC -408.jpg|A rare EMD NC Switcher locomotive.
Sabine River & Northern Railroad #408. File:Union Pacific DD40AX -6944 at the National Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri.jpg|
Union Pacific Railroad DD40AX #6944
Automobiles displayed inside the museum.] The
Earl C. Lindburg Automotive Center contains 25 vehicles, including: • 1908 Galloway Express truck • 1901
St. Louis Motor Carriage Company car • 1963
Chrysler Turbine Car • 1964½
Ford Mustang • 1915
Ford Model T •
Bobby Darin's
Dream Car a
DiDia 150 • 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 Aircraft and boat Aircraft on display at the museum include a
C-47 Skytrain at the main gate, a
T-33 Shooting Star, and, since 2024, the first production
F/A-18 Super Hornet, E1. In late 2025, the museum announced it would add a
Harrier jump jet. 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. A
Missouri River towboat is also on display. ==See also==