Planes, trains and automobiles is the theme you will find at the Forney Museum of Transportation in Denver, Colorado. If you have about three hours to spend on education, entertainment, reminiscence and relaxation, the Forney Museum of Transportation is a must see.
The museum is based on the hobby of J.D. Forney, who collected cars and other modes transportation. This museum showcases his personal collection. Inside you will find lots of horse drawn stagecoaches, giant wheeled bicycles and old-fashioned cars. There are limousines, milk trucks, air planes and train engines. In short, anything once used for transportation will be found here.
A favorite display is known simply as the "Big Boy". This is an exhibit of the world's largest steam locomotive measuring over 134' long. You can even climb the ladder and look into the cab. The wheels are about 5' tall and it definitely lives up to its name.
There are a couple of smaller steam locomotives, a rotary plow and even a Denver cable car and streetcar on display. You will find an 1898 Renault coupe, Amelia Earhart's immaculately maintained "Goldbug," and Teddy Roosevelt's tour car among other previous vehicles of the country's highways and railroads.
Other exhibits in this eclectic collection consist of antique bicycles, experimental car-planes, and even a 1975 Pontiac which is covered entirely in bumper stickers. Among all of the interesting things to see you will find display cards which are well written, keeping the attention of even the most reluctant museum-goer. You will find yourself wanting to read each display card for every vehicle and find it was time well spent.
