Spencer, NC is the home of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
This is a large facility that includes a museum of automobiles, a classic steam engine roundhouse filled with classic train engines, modular model railroads, railroad passenger cars and specialty displays that change regularly - when we visited the display was of eccentric bicycles which was very interesting.
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| The former car shop now contains a large collection of cars, trucks, wagons and an airplane |
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| A classic milk delivery truck was part of the collection |
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| Never knew something like this existed |
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| Wonderful roundhouse and turntable with a large collection of historic railroad equipment |
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| I enjoy seeing restored box cab locos |
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| Nice to see a Shay in good condition |
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| Boiler is offset to allow room for the geared drive train |
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| These HO scale modules were especially well done |
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| Rear platform on a business car |
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| Speeders stored inside |
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| Inside of a Railway Post Office car (RPO) |
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| One building is dedicated to classic cars |
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| Another building is dedicated to changing displays, in this case Eccentric Bicycles |
We also discovered the soft drink Cheerwine is bottled in the area. We had never heard of it and tried some at a local restaurant and found it to be tasty.
