The St. Louis Museum of Transportation hosted NRHS convention goers for a day of history. The highlight of the day was the presentation of a historic plaque commemorating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Pacific Railroad, the first railroad west of the Mississippi. A plaque ceremony was held at 1:30 PM to unveiled to be mounted at the Barrett Tunnels, part of the Museum property. The tunnels were the first railroad tunnels built west of the Mississippi river. The plaque was presented to the Museum by the NRHS.

The Museum has over 80 locomotives, including 37 steam locomotives, many one of a kind. It also has railroad many passenger and freight cars, as wells as cars, trucks, and wagons.