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Museum Activities

1966 DiDia 150 Bobby Darin Dream Car

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

We invite you to come visit the National Museum of Transportation! Full of photographic opportunities, historic artifacts, model trains and aircraft, and a Virgin Hyperloop Pegasus pod from the Smithsonian, the Museum is open Monday through Sunday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. TNMOT is primarily an outdoor facility. Please call 314.289.3508, ext. 4, for weather updates.

Our knowledgeable tour guides are available in the Earl C. Lindburg Automobile Center to answer your questions about our vintage vehicles. Public guided tours are available at 10 a.m. each open day, weather permitting, no reservation required. Much of our extensive 70-piece locomotive collection is covered under the Roberts Pavilion, plus more nearby, for safe exploring. A tour guide is on hand at the pavilion ready to reply to your inquiries.

The Major Lee Berra Creation Station

The Major Lee Berra Creation Station, an interactive transportation-themed play and educational area geared to one- to five-year olds, has boarding times Monday through Friday, at 9:15 | 10:30 | 11:45 a.m., with an additional $3 per person fee.

The Wm F. Ross Special Miniature Train

The Wm. F. Ross Special Miniature Train operates rides twice around a substantial portion of TNMOT’s property, with knowledgeable and friendly conductors narrating the trip. Train tickets are $7 extra for unlimited rides available Monday – Friday, from 9:20 a.m. – 3:20 p.m., weather and mechanicals permitting.

 

 

The Major Lee Berra Creation Station

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Creation Station is now
The Major Lee Berra Creation Station

Lee Berra grew up less than a mile from The National Museum of Transportation, which he referred to as the “old fashioned train station.” He loved his family, friends, country and all things transportation – especially planes and trains. He got his pilot’s license at age 16. 

Lee was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 2006 and spent a decade in the military. He flew 2,566 military flight hours in 30 different aircraft with 2,270 of those hours in the supersonic B-1 Lancer. 

When Lee returned for visits to St. Louis, he always took his wife, Sydney, to the 
“old fashioned train station” and told her that someday they would bring their kids to the Museum. Lee would be honored to be part of the Museum and the Creation Station.
Major Lee Berra – March 7, 1984 – January 25, 2017