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Exhibit Guide National Museum of Transport by Cliff Saxton Jr St Louis MO 1967
Exhibit Guide National Museum of Transport by Cliff Saxton Jr
Soft Cover
16 pages
Copyright 1967
CONTENTS
An introduction
Railroad Locomotives
1 Steam Locomotives
2 Diesel Locomotives
3 Electric Locomotives
Railroad Freight Equipment
Railroad Passenger Equipment
Miscellaneous Railway Equipment
Rail City Transit Vehicles
Local and Intercity Highway Transit Vehicles
The General Motors Bus Collection
Horse Drawn Equipment
Automobiles
Trucks
Fire Equipment
Airplanes
Conduit Systems
Miscellaneous Equipment
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This Catalogue Is Published In An Effort To More Fully Acquaint Visitors To The National Museum Of Transport With The Individual Exhibits Of This Unequalled Collection Of Relics Depicting The Evolution Of Transportation. Visitors Using This Guide As A Reference While At The Museum May Identify Particular Exhibits Through Company Name And Number. Exhibits Currently In Storage Awaiting Display Are Designated Throughout By An Asterisk (R). The Statistics Included Herein Are Incomplete In Some Instances:
EXHIBITS ARE CLASSIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER: I) Railroad Locomotives; II) Railroad Freight Equipment; III) Railroad Passenger Equipment; IV) Miscellaneous Railroad Equipment; V) Rail City Transit Vehicles; VI) Local and Intercity Highway Transit Vehicles; VII) Horse-Drawn Equipment; VIII) Automobiles; IX) Trucks; X) Fire Equipment; XI) Airplanes; XII) Conduit Systems; and XIII) Miscellaneous Exhibits.
Some of the more frequently used abbreviations in this guide include:
AC&F: American Car and Foundry
Alco: American Locomotive Co.
BRT: Brooklyn Rapid Transit
D: date of donation to NMOT
EMC: General Motors-Electro-Motive Corp.
EMD: General Motors-Electro-Motive Div.
GE: General Electric
GM: General Motors
hp: horsepower
PCC: Presidents' Conference Committee car
WH: Westinghouse
NMOT: National Museum of Transport
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AN INTRODUCTION
The NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT concerns the history of the technology and design of the implements of transportation and communication.
The exhibits indicate society's growing dependence on rapid and widespread movements of ideas, people and things. A review of transportation and communication progress is a social chronicle: the appearance of towns and their spread into metropolitan areas; the utilization of natural resources; the storage and diffusion of information.
The Museum is a nonprofit educational corporation, operated by a Board of Directors elected by the Membership. Services are supported by contributions, by individual and corporate memberships, and by admission fees and concession sales.
In 1944 a mule-drawn streetcar, occupying otherwise needed storage space, was scheduled for scrapping. A group of historically-minded St. Louisans recognized the importance of preserving such relics as permanent records of transportation history. Thereupon, they organized the Corporation and acquired land at Barretts Station in St. Louis County.
From more than two decades of collecting significant displays and developing the organization, the Museum has become a cultural institution of distinction. A paid staff has replaced the founding volunteers. Visitors of all ages discover or reminisce first hand with today's diverse exhibits. Thus, the Museum is an instrument of public education at many levels.
The NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT is a central depository for artifacts from the history of transportation and communication. Operation with the present facilities has demonstrated the Museum's educational function and its popular appeal. The project now is to provide a physical plant that will enclose displays of communication and transportation mechanisms as well as administrative offices, library, auditorium and classrooms.
The Museum stores, disperses and extends knowledge by preserving relics of design and technology, promoting a teaching program, and providing artifact and library research source material.
The Museum continues to acquire exhibits whereby visitors obsesve actual historical transportation and communication devices. Such dynamic meaningful history of technology and design is a stimulant to the creative imagination needed for solving further problems of time and distance. Measuring against the past furnishes perspective for evaluating the present and planning for the future.
The NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT has an ambitious program for the growing collections:
Representative air and space craft will depict achievements in flight.
Originals or models of watercraft will trace the growth of marine transportation.
Railway equipment will demonstrate the evolution of simple goods cars to modern mass-handling devices.
Conduit systems will show the movement of gases, liquids and solids by pipeline.
Trucks, buses and automobiles will illustrate the importance of the pneumatic tire and the hard road to modern society.
Animal-powered vehicles will recapitulate transportation prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Communication systems from smoke signals through data processing will portray information transmission and storage.
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