Transport Museum

After having passed the signs for the Transport Museum numerous times on I270, we finally went to the museum. We went on a really hot (& humid) day which wasn't probably the best idea as most of the museum was outside. Even just standing about was enough to break out into a major sweat!

There were a variety of types of transport at the museum, but the trains were the main attraction. There was a DC-3 Dakota aircraft & a boat at the entrance to the parking lot, a huge train shed with a variety of engines & carriages on display, & also a number of open air trains. A new dispay hall had recently been completed that housed the vehicle collection.

The display hall included about 12 older american cars & a car transporter. There were spedometer/dashboad displays upstairs & a craft/discovery centre adjacent to the hall.

There was also a minature train which circled a new parking lot & derelict ground that was being used to expand the museum. We all had a ride on this & to get to the station from the from the museum you had to take a ride on a shuttle bus. This was a yellow school bus (so Beth has now finally been on one).

We took a ride on a tram that ran alongside the train shed & then we climbed inside some of the steam trains on display. On a couple of the trains you could ring the bell mounted on the front. The trains were huge (almost like two or three trains in one) & to give you an idea of the length of the engines there was a couple of seconds delay between pulling the bell cord in the cab & hearing the bell ring.