Established | 1982 |
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Location | Spencer Shops |
Type | Transport museum |
Collection size | Railroad artifacts and equipment, road vehicles, airplanes. |
Website | http://www.nctrans.org |
The North Carolina Transportation Museum is a museum in Spencer, North Carolina. It is a collection of automobiles, aircraft, and railway vehicles. The museum is located at the former Southern Railway's 1896-era Spencer Shops and devotes much of its space to the state's railroad history. The museum has the largest collection of rail relics in the Carolinas. Its Back Shop building of nearly three stories high is notable for its size, two football fields long.