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North Carolina Transportation Museum 
Antique automobiles.Established 1982 Location Spencer Shops Type Transport museum Collection size Railroad artifacts and equipment, road vehicles, airplanes. Website http://www.nctrans.org The North Carolina Transportation Museum (reporting mark NCMX)[1] 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.
Antique airplanes
The museum is located at the former Southern Railway's 1896-era Spencer Shops.
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History
The museum was founded in 1977, when the Southern Railway deeded 4 acres (16,000 m2) of land to the state of North Carolina for a transportation museum. Two years later, another 53 acres (210,000 m2) 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.
RoundhouseSeveral bays of the Spencer Shops roundhouse are devoted to restoring locomotives and rolling stock in the museum collection. Restoration work is done by volunteers.
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. Cab rides can be purchased for $10 (diesel locomotives only).
Visitors may also purchase tickets to ride the roundhouse turntable on selected days, demonstrated in the video link below.
Collection
Seaboard Air Line #544, one of over 200 undelivered Russian Decapods.
Atlantic Coast Line 4-6-0 # 1031
Southern E-Unit # 6900
Atlantic Coast Line E-Unit # 501The roster contains almost 30 locomotives, but only these 10 have ever seen service on the Spencer Southern RR.
Steam
- Graham County 3-truck shay # 1925
- Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 # 4/Spencer (Southern) 2-8-0 # 604
- Southern 2-8-0 # 542
- Seaboard Air Line 2-10-0 # 544
Diesel
- Southern E8A-Unit # 6900
- Norfolk & Western GP9 # 620
- Atlantic Coast Line E3A-Unit # 501
- Southern GP30 # 2601
- Southern FP7-Unit # 6133
- US Navy switcher # 65-00556
- Duke Power Plymouth switcher # 5951
- Beaufort & Morehead H12-44 # 1860
- Norfolk Southern Railway (former) #1616
See also
References
- ^ Railinc, Search MARKs, accessed September 2009
External links
- North Carolina Transportation Museum website
- Video of North Carolina Transportation Museum artifacts
Coordinates: 35°41′13″N 80°26′10″W / 35.68694°N 80.43611°W
Historic Sites Alamance Battleground • Aycock Birthplace • Historic Bath • Bennett Place • Bentonville Battlefield • Brunswick Town • Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum • CSS Neuse • Duke Homestead • Historic Edenton • Fort Anderson • Fort Dobbs • Fort Fisher • Historic Halifax • Horne Creek Farm • House in the Horseshoe • North Carolina Transportation Museum • USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial • Old Salem • President James K. Polk Historic Site • Reed Gold Mine • Roanoke Island Festival Park • Somerset Place • Historic Stagville • North Carolina State Capitol • Town Creek Indian Mound • Tryon Palace • Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace • Thomas Wolfe Memorial •
Categories:- Railroad museums in North Carolina
- Aerospace museums in North Carolina
- Automobile museums in North Carolina
- Southern Railway (US)
- Museums in Rowan County, North Carolina
- North Carolina State Historic Sites
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