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The Gratitude Train, forty-nine boxcars long, was France’s gift-filled gesture to America for its assistance in the closing days of World War II. Participants in the arrival of North Carolina’s boxcar included Governor Kerr Scott and News and Observer editor Jonathan Daniels. Preserved items such as this boxcar and a woodcut portrait of Abraham Lincoln continue to testify international goodwill.
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23054
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Trains connected North Carolina towns to the rest of the United States during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The NC Transportation Museum in Spencer celebrates this history by displaying train cars, locomotive engines, the town's old roundhouse, and other related artifacts.
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4624
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The North Carolina Transportation Museum at historic Spencer Shops near Salisbury begins its last restoration phase in May 2000. Completion date is 2003. The mammoth Black Shop, which is the length of two football fields, will undergo a $30 million restoration. Exhibits in the shop will include a hanging DC-3 airplane and a replica of the Wright brothers' plane. Other buildings house historic locomotives, diesel engines, and railroad cars. Over 100,000 people visit Spencer Shops annually.
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3150
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The North Carolina Transportation Museum at Historic Spencer Shops underwent a $7.8 million renovation in 1996. September 12-15, 1996, the newly restored Bob Julian Roundhouse opened, along with other renovated areas.
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1725
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The North Carolina Transportation Museum at Historic Spencer Shops north of Salisbury attracts 80,000 visitors a year. Visitors to the museum can see various types of transportation in static displays and in live operation.
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24455
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This article presents the host of museums that preserve North Carolina’s railroading heritage, which began in 1833. The museums include the Wilmington Railroad Museum, the North Carolina Transportation Museum, the National Railroad Museum, the North Carolina Railroad Museum and the New Hope Valley Railway, the Old Fort Depot, and the Piedmont North Carolina Railroad Museum.
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