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The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in the Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1944, [1] it restores, preserves, and displays a wide variety of vehicles spanning 15 decades of American history: cars, boats, aircraft, and in particular, locomotives and railroad equipment from around the United States.
The Loop Trolley is a 2.2-mile (3.5 km), 10-station heritage streetcar line in and near the Delmar Loop area of greater St. Louis, Missouri.It opened for service in 2018, then shut down in 2019 after revenue fell far short of projections.
By the 1830s, St. Louis had grown beyond the ability of many of its residents to walk conveniently throughout the town. [2] In 1838, brief mention is made in historical records of a private horse-drawn cab service in the city, followed in 1843 by the beginning of an omnibus service by entrepreneur Erastus Wells in partnership with an investor named Calvin Case. [2]
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SS Admiral was an excursion steamboat that operated on the Mississippi River from the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1940 to 1978.The ship was briefly re-purposed as an amusement center in 1987 and converted to a gambling venue called President Casino, [1] also known as Admiral Casino, [2] in the 1990s.
Barges on the Mississippi near the Port of St. Louis, 2012. The St. Louis Port Authority is responsible for managing the facilities that make St. Louis, Missouri, the United States second-busiest inland port. [1] St. Louis is the northernmost port on the Mississippi River that is free of canal locks and is ice-free year-round.
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A #15 Hodiamont streetcar near Wellston in April 1963. The enterprise now known as Metro Transit was founded in 1963 when the Bi-State Development Agency, using a $22.5 million bond issue, purchased and consolidated 15 privately owned transit operators to sustain efficient and reliable public transportation in the region.