North Carolina Transportation Museum
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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.
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 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.
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. 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.
[edit] Collection
The roster contains almost 30 locomotives, but only these 10 have ever seen service on the Spencer Southern RR.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Railinc, Search MARKs, accessed September 2009
[edit] External links
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- 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
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