North Carolina Transportation Museum
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The North Carolina Transportation Museum is a transport museum in Spencer, North Carolina.
The museum is largely devoted to the state's railroad history, however its collection also includes exhibits of automobiles and aircraft.
The museum is located at the former Southern Railway's 1896-era Spencer Shops.
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[edit] History
The museum was founded in 1977, when the Norfolk Southern Railway deeded four acres of land to the state of North Carolina for a transportation museum. Two years later, another 53 acres was added to the original donation; the entirety of the railway's largest former steam locomotive repair shops. The museum is currently undergoing a major renovation which will increase its size and number of exhibits.
Several bays of the Spencer Shops roundhouse are devoted to restoring locomotives and rolling stock in the museum collection. Restoration work is done by volunteers.
[edit] Heritage railroad
The museum has a heritage railroad which operates passenger excursion trains several times per day during the tourist season. Trains are powered by either steam or diesel locomotives from the museum's collection.
Visitors may also purchase tickets to ride the roundhouse turntable on selected days.
[edit] Collection
The museum has six steam and nine diesel locomotives.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- North Carolina Transportation Museum website
- Video of North Carolina Transportation Museum artifacts
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