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Museum Goals

Texas Transportation Museum, San Antonio

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Texas Transportation Museum continues to build on its long history of growth and development. We have bold plans for the future that will enhance the experience for our visitors and make our museum one of the premier transportation museums in the state. We intend to bring our small historic steam locomotive back into service, extend our tracks by a mile and, ultimately, to build a brand new, two story display building, complete with class rooms that will house our extensive collections and provide a better opportunity for us to demonstrate the incredible contributions that transportation developments have made to the lives of everybody across or region. It won't be easy and it won't be cheap but we are determined to maintain our impressive level of growth and build for a facility that makes an even greater contribution to our community.

TTM Mission Statement

Texas Transportation Museum is an all volunteer organization that collects, preserves and displays transportation equipment and related items. We operate a working passenger railroad, several model train layouts and many road vehicles. We provide an educational and entertaining experience which interprets how developments in transportation technology shaped and continue to impact daily life."

Looking to the future as of Spring 2007

The list of items we are continuing to work on is impressive. Emboldened by our recent successfully completed projects and the increase in attendance that has come with them, we look to the future with great optimism. Texas Transportation Museum has the potential to be not only a significant part of the San Antonio community. We believe that with the developments we are working on, it will be a significant draw for visitors from across the state of Texas and beyond. We already get an impressive number of visitors from outside San Antonio, including many from overseas. Each improvement yields tangible benefits, in terms of increased enjoyment for our visitors plus greater revenue for the museum which we immediately invest right back into making the facility even better.

Click •TTM HISTORY • for a brief history of Texas Transportation Museum.

Here is our wish list, broken down into short, medium and long range goals:

Short Term Goals

Continue to work towards the return of our small steam locomotive to service. (Ongoing project)
Continue project to upgrade access to our historic depot to ADA standards. (Ongoing project)
Finish off signage improvement project. (Ongoing project)
Complete installation of railroad semaphore signals at main gate. (Ongoing project)
Finish off restoration of newly acquired railroad gang car and put into service. (Ongoing project)
Re-route electrical supply to better balance load across museum. (Ongoing project)
Publish second book on San Antonio transportation history. (Ongoing project)
Install roof over converted flat car for comfort of passengers. (Ongoing project)

Medium term goals

Build shade over static steam locomotive and historic railroad cars. Approximate cost - $45,000.00
Exterior restoration of both historic railroad cars. Approximate cost - $50,000.00 each
Install air conditioning in historic depot. Approximate cost - $6,000.00
Build pavilion over existing slab. Can accommodate 50 people. Approximate cost - $20,000.00
Build pavilion and new slab. Can accommodate 100 people. Approximate cost - $35,000.00
Build additional restrooms, for rising number of visitors. Approximate cost - $50,000.00
Build mobile G scale layout on trailer, to participate in more public events. Approximate cost - $2,500.00
Repair roof of railroad car barn. Approximate cost - $15,000.00

Long term goals

Extend our railroad tracks into McAllister Park. Approximate cost - $750,000.00
Build two story display building complete with classrooms. Approximate cost - $500,000.00
Restore 1942 GE diesel-electric locomotive to service. Approximate cost - $50,000.00
Acquire historically significant operational passenger railroad car. Approximate cost - $75,000.00
Build automobile service shop, with pits and/or hydraulic lifts. Approximate cost - $60,000.00
Pave parking lots and main oval road on or property. Approximate cost - $100,000.00

We are looking at a number of ways to finance all the improvements we would like to achieve at Texas Transportation Museum. If you are looking for a place where your donation will make a difference, you can be sure any contribution you make to TTM will work hard on behalf of a great institution with a great future.

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