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North Carolina Transportation Museum by Jim Wrinn with Candice Boyd & Lynn Cox
North Carolina Transportation Museum by Jim Wrinn with Candice Boyd & Lynn Cox
Soft Cover
32 pages
Copyright 2001
CONTENTS
History in Motion
Museums Foundation: Spencer Shops
Spencer: The Man and the Shops
The Early Years
On the Job
An Unending Task
Railroad Towns: Spencer, East Spencer, Salisbury
Where the Work Took Place: The Back Shop
Spencer in Folklore
Steam to Diesel
Railroading Tar Heel Style
Birth of a Museum
Rounding Up a Collection
Steam Returns to Spencer
On the Road Again
The Bob Julian Roundhouse
Restoring the Roundhouse
A Centennial Celebration
From Steam to Diesel
Seaboards 544
Purple Power:501
Coaches to Caboose
Riding the Rails
On the Job
Rail Days and Santa Train
Thomas and Steamfest
A Story without End
ABOUT SAMUEL SPENCER:
Samuel Spencer, the namesake of the shop complex, was a Georgian by birth, a confederate officer in the Civil War and a railroad executive of the first order who served the Baltimore & Ohio before financier J.P. Morgan lured him away to run the then-new Southern Railway in 1894. Spencer, shown here in a painting with Atlanta's Terminal Station in the background, lent his name to the shop complex, though it is not known if that was of his doing or that of his colleagues. Tragically, Spencer was killed in a collision in which another train rammed his private railroad car on the mainline in northern Virginia. Though the active rail yard of Southern Railway, now Norfolk Southern, has left the town of Spencer, the new yard, a few miles north, retains the name of the man who helped start it all.
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