Pete & Jan's Travels 2010 travel blog

The visitor center.

Train rides are available.

 

Oh my ! Thats gonna take tons of scrubbing. lol

Some of the shops.

Some of the buildings are waiting for restoration.

Brother-in-law Bill walking down the path.

Flight simulator/trainer. Tiny little thing.

Flight uniforms.

Well, this is different.

 

I just don't know what this is. Looks a little like a...

A Farm Wagon.

Pete's checking out one of the passenger cars.

 

An old dugout.

 

 

1918 Ranch & Lang, Model BX-7, Brougham.

 

1901 White Steam Stanhope.

 

 

 

Lots of old photos to look at.

 

Need a fill up ?

We remember these.

 

Pete & I use to own a Corvair like this, it was...

1935 Ford N.C. Highway Patrol Car

The Bob Julian Roundhouse

Cool little school bus (1940 Thomas School Bus)

Here come the trains !

 

 

 

Joyce inside this caboose

 

 

 

No. Carolina....First in Flight.

 

Prime Mover

 

 

 


The North Carolina Transportation Museum is located on the site of Southern Railway's steam locomotive repair facility on Spencer, N.C. The Spencer Shops complex, begun in 1896, is located halfway between Atlanta, Ga., & Washington, D.C. When Southern Railway switched to diesel locomotives in the 1950s, the railway attempted to convert the shops to repair diesels. These locomotives, however, required far less maintenance than steam, & Spencer Shops eventually closed. The site was donated, through two gifts in 1977 & 1979, to the state of North Carolina for use as a transportation museum.

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