The North Carolina Transportation Museum is a window to the history of transportation innovation and its effects on the state. A family-friendly place filled with interesting exhibits and special events, the museum is a source of education and fun for young and old.
Year-round, there's plenty to see and do. Bring your children to a Day Out With Thomas™. Take a ride on the train or turntable. Go on a scenic excursion or participate in special Halloween and Christmas festivities. There's something for everyone to enjoy.
The N.C. Transportation Museum is a State Historic Site, part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. Find out more at www.ncculture.com.
My eldest, paternal side, half-aunt told me the story of the Wreck of the Old 97. My grandparents lived less than a mile from White Oak Mountain and they actually heard the sound of the Wreck. She said that my grandfather and some other men in the community hitched up the mules to the wagons and went over to the mountain. They pulled out the bodies from the wreckage. There is a Virginia Department of Transportation historical marker on US 29 that commemorates the Wreck and the loss of life.
I was going down the road doing 90 mph when the chain on my miny bike broke I was found in the dirt with my hand on the throttle and my peker playing DIXIE ON THE SPOKES 😮
The site where the wreck happened between Locust Lane and Riverside Drive is overgrown with trees and vegetation. Dan River Mills used to operate nearby the site of the accident. Danville is my hometown and the history of the city is very interesting.
Hey NCTM I have a question. Will 611 return to Spencer Someday? I know you guys probably can’t ask that question since it’s owned the vmt but thanks! Awesome video!
If you're ever in Evanston Wyoming. They are fixing up one as a museum a little at a time. Salt Lake City had one for Denver and Rio grande. Ogden Utah had one for U.P.R.R. and I've seen a RU-vid video about one in Alaska that's out in the woods and the turn table is still around and can be rotated buy pushing it with one hand while walking. I've always enjoyed the look of them. The only other one Ive seen in person was in Austria and the building was in excellent condition but the railway was nolonger useing it.
with scaletrains creating this beauty I ordered one and in my 'world' Yall have loaned this to my Tennessee Valley Railroad museum ( my layout is set somewhere along the Tennessee River midway between Chattanooga and Knoxville) She is such a beautiful engine!!!
In Greensboro where the Sourhern RR roundhouse was you can still sort of see where it is, you can see the old tracks sticking out of the concrete connecting to the NS rail yard.
My great grandpa was born and raised in Lexington North Carolina, he told me during 1945 when he was 7 or 8 years old, his family walked miles to see the FDR Funeral Train pass by Salisbury and he claims he witnessed a soldier, a marine, a sailor, a coast guardsman, and an airman standing beside of President Roosevelts casket. It's outstanding to hear such a story from your own kinfolk.
The Singer left out a verse in the Song. It goes as follows: "Well a telegram came to Washington Station, and this is what it read ... Oh that brave Engineer that runs Ole 97 is layin in Ole Danville dead"
The only time i see cabooses at the end of long freight trains nowadays are just at the state borders for long hauls. Other places they use a caboose once in a blue moon not too often. The deliveries they make are local runs. That's probably why you don't see cabooses that much anymore blah. Jim Openshaw is a licensed railroad engineer. He told me he drives freight trains from Delaware to North Carolina. Thêre is still one caboose at the end. I gues if they still use cabooses are just for long hauls and shoving platforms in the convertion yard. Nỏt for local runs.
I remember being a kid at the Durham museum of science and this plane is one my favorite memories. Have you finished the cosmetic restoration and is it currently on display at the museum of transportation now?
