The Museum of Transportation

Saturday we went to the Museum of Transportation. It is in Des Peres, which was only about 30 minutes away.

There were TONS of old locomotives there. I wasn't keeping track, but I would say over 100. There were engines, cabooses, dining cars, coal cars, etc. This was a dream come true for Avery. She just loves trains.

There was all kind of information to read about all of the trains, but it is hard to do with a two year old. But it was really neat just to look at all of the different trains and the years they were from.

You get to go inside quite a few of the old trains, and that was a lot of fun to see the seats and all of the controls, some of the bunks, etc. It was great to see how much had changed over the years. The picture of Al and Avery at the bottom, with the green background, was in one of the older engines. The seats were like wooden crates and there were just tons of gears and controls in there.

We also rode a mini-train around the museum grounds a couple of times. The conductor let Avery yell, "All aboard!" through the microphone to everybody else on the train. She thought that was pretty special. And she got excited every time the train would whistle.

There was a part of the museum that had lots of different old cars that had been restored. It was interesting to read about the old cars, and how much people bought them for back in the day. Avery thought some of the cars were like the ones from the movie 'Cars.' In the one picture Avery and I are standing in front of 'Flo.'

We spent a few hours there and probably could have spent a little more time, except for that we were all starving and Avery was going to fall over from heat and exhaustion. She fell asleep about 5 minutes after we put her back in the car. It was a very fun outing, I think we were all pleasantly surprised. Posted by Jenny