This was a very busy day. In the morning we drove to the National Transportation Museum. They have mostly trains and automobiles though there was at least one airplane and a boat. Next we went to the Gateway Arch National Park and did a number of things. We saw a movie about the making of the arch, we rode up to the top of the arch and took some pictures, and we went on a river cruise. Finally, we went back to the National Blues Museum because every Thursday night they have a jam session with their house band and anybody who want to volunteer to perform with them (one at a time).
They had a very early passenger car.
This was an early electric locomotive.
To keep costs low, railroads often modified automobiles to run on the rails. This is a converted school bus.
This is a Union Pacific "Big Boy". It was the largest American steam locomotive. Only eight of them survived. We saw one of the others in Frisco Texas on our last adventure.
Bruce is standing next to the largest tanker for liquid natural gas. This was the only one of this design ever built. No railroad would purchase it.
As electric car drivers, we liked to see these two early examples of electric cars.
The '57 Chevy was the car that every guy of our generation dreamed about.
Here is a very early Mustang.
We next went to the Gateway Arch. Here are the two adventurers standing at the base of the arch.
We road a little tram to the top of the arch. Up there was an observation room with windows on both sides of the arch. The view toward the city was more interesting. I took a picture on the other side of the Eads Bridge, which we had seen of movie about its construction.
The final thing we did at the arch was a riverboat cruise. Here is a picture of our boat and a couple of shots of the arch taken from the boat. The final one had lots of bright reflections from the sunlight hitting the stainless steel outside of the arch.
Finally, we took our car back to the hotel and walked over to the National Blues Museum. The sign in front looks like a giant harmonica. Here is the house band and a picture of the docent we befriended yesterday who joined the band for a couple of numbers.
Finally, at the end of the day, we had put in 45 miles.
