Monday, November 29, 2021

North Carolina Transportation Museum

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.



The former car shop now contains a large collection of cars, trucks, wagons and an airplane

A classic milk delivery truck was part of the collection

Never knew something like this existed


Wonderful roundhouse and turntable with a large collection of historic railroad equipment






I enjoy seeing restored box cab locos





Nice to see a Shay in good condition

Boiler is offset to allow room for the geared drive train

These HO scale modules were especially well done







Rear platform on a business car

Speeders stored inside


Inside of a Railway Post Office car (RPO)



One building is dedicated to classic cars







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.

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