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{{Infobox Museummuseum
|name = U.S. Army Transportation Museum
|image = Skycrane001.jpg
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[[Image:40and8s style boxcar.JPG|thumb|[[Forty-and-eights]] style boxcar in the Army Transportation Museum.]]
 
The museum features a {{convert|50000|sqft|m2|singadj=on}} main building and four outdoor parks.<ref name="Virginia Tourism">{{cite web|url=http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=43029|work=Official Tourism Website of the Commonwealth of Virginia|title=Virginia Tourism U.S. Army Transportation Museum|accessdate=2008-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314233107/http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=43029|archive-date=2008-03-14|url-status=dead}}</ref> The exhibits inside the museum building include representative transportation-related materials, presented in a series of dioramas in chronological order. Outside (see map, below) there is a vehicle yard to the south, with road vehicles, amphibious craft, and the aircraft pavilion, and a rail exhibit to the north. Although material is presented on 18th- and 19th-century topics, over half the indoor exhibit space and almost all of the outdoor exhibits are 20th-century- related.
 
Early truck developments are given coverage with the [[Mexican Punitive Expedition]], [[Liberty truck]], and Transcontinental Motor Convoy exhibits. The extensive Liberty Truck exhibit covers the development and production of the Army's first standardized truck design, a 5-ton cargo hauler produced using interchangeable parts.<ref name="liberty">{{cite web
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[[Category:United States Army museums|Transportation]]