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The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina is a transportation museum devoted mostly to rail history, but it also contains early forms of North Carolina transportation, antique automobiles, and a few aircraft exhibits. The museum has 6 steam and 9 diesel locomotives. It's located at the Southern Railroad's old Spencer Shops, which first opened in 1896.
The museum was founded in 1977, when the Norfolk Southern Railway deeded 4 acres of land to the state of North Carolina for a transportation museum. Two years later, another 53 acres was added to the museum by the railway. These 57 acres sit on the site of the railway's largest steam locomotive repair shop.
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