The Museum of Transportation was founded in 1944 by a group of historically minded local citizens who had just acquired an old mule driven streetcar called the Bellefontaine. Over the next couple of decades the train collection grew and a disused railway station was acquired along the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
On September 1, 1979 the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation assumed responsibility for the operation and development of the site and the collection before acquiring full ownership of the site from the museum founders in February 1984.
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