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Five North Carolina railroads were authorized by legislation between 1829 and 1833. The last one chartered was the first to build. It was called The Experimental Railroad and carried heavy granite stones one-and-a-half miles from a Raleigh quarry to the site where the State Capitol building was being rebuilt after a fire.
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Founded in 1894, the Southern Railway Company controlled over 4,500 miles of track across the South. To keep the equipment repaired, the company built a large repair shop in Rowan County in 1896. Misenheimer describes the work carried out by over 2,000 workers at Spencer Shops, which was named for company president Samuel Spencer. The shops were used into the 1960s, when the era of the steam engine came to an end.
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