Thursday, January 21, 2010

Transport Museums in US

List of transport museums
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia accessed 1/21/10, only copying US museums though
This is a list of transport museums throughout the world. Old transportation systems don't disappear, they often become the park and recreational facilities of future generations. Parts of many dismantled trolley systems in the United States for instance, have become trolley museums.

* Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan Air Force Base, northeast of Sacramento, California
* Air Zoo, Portage, Michigan
* American Airpower Heritage Museum, Midland, Texas
* Automotive Hall of Fame, Dearborn, Michigan
* Arizona Street Railway Museum, Phoenix, Arizona – [72]
* Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum, Auburn, Indiana
* B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, located at Mount Clare Station, the birthplace of American railroading
* Bandana Square, Saint Paul, Minnesota, home of Twin Cities Model Railroad Club and old Northern Pacific Como shops.
* Brooklyn Trolley Museum, Brooklyn
* Cable Car Museum, San Francisco, California
* California Automobile Museum, Sacramento, California
* California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California (located in Old Sacramento)
* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland
* Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, Colorado
* Commonwealth Coach & Trolley Museum, Roanoke, Virginia – [73]
* Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, Connecticut
* Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Durango, Colorado
* East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, Wisconsin
* Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Massachusetts
* Evergreen Aviation Museum, McMinnville, Oregon – LAviation,. Hughes H-4, Boeing B-17 und Supermarine Spitfire
* Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington
* Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan
* Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, Colorado – [74]
* Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Florida
* Golden Gate Railroad Museum, formerly San Francisco, California – relocated to Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, California
* Golden Oldy Cyclery, The Sustainable Museum of Sustainable Transportation, Golden, Colorado, Pre-1900 Bicycles and Tricycles & 21st Century Electric Cars in a Carbon Negative Museum
* Great Plains Transportation Museum, Wichita, Kansas
* Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, California
* Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
* Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois
* Indiana Railway Museum, French Lick, Indiana
* Indiana Transportation Museum, Noblesville, Indiana
* Kentucky Railway Museum, New Haven, Kentucky
* Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia [75]
* Midland Railway, Baldwin City, Kansas
* Minnesota Transportation Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota
* Montana Auto Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana [76]
* Monticello Railway Museum, Monticello, Illinois [77]
* Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington
* Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri – [78]
* National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
* National Capital Trolley Museum, Montgomery County, Maryland – [79]
* National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly the US Air Force Museum, in Dayton, Ohio
* National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
* Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport, Washington – U-Boote [80]
* Nevada Northern Railway Museum, Ely, Nevada
* New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn, New York
* North Carolina Transportation Museum, Spencer, North Carolina
* Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmie, Washington
* Oakland Aviation Museum, Oakland, California
* Ohio Railway Museum, Worthington, Ohio – [81]
* Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, New York
* Orange Empire Railway Museum, Perris, California
* Oregon Electric Railway Museum, Brooks, Oregon
* Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, Maine
* Pacific Coast Air Museum, Santa Rosa, California
* Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, Pennsylvania
* Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California
* Railroad Museum of the Niagara Frontier
* Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
* R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, Lansing, Michigan
* San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego, California
San Diego Air & Space Museum
* San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California
* San Francisco Railway Museum, San Francisco, California
* San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego, California
* Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine
* Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum, Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
* Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Haven, Connecticut – [82]
* South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta, California – [83]
* Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, Tucson, Arizona
* Steamtown National Historic Site, Scranton, Pennsylvania
* Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (Part of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum), Fairfax County, Virginia – Airplanes (Boeing B-29 „Enola Gay“) and Space Shuttle Enterprise
* Tallahassee Automobile Museum, Tallahassee, Florida
* Tennessee Central Railway Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
* Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee
* Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California
* Trolley Museum of New York, Kingston, New York – [84]
* Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia [85]
* Volo Auto Museum, Volo, Illinois
* Walter P. Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
* Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California
* White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon
* Wyoming Transportation Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming – [86]
* Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, Michigan

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