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Southern Railway’s Historic Spencer Shops (Images of Rail)

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Southern Railway’s Spencer Shops used to be a vibrant a part of the Southeast’s transportation network for more than 80 years. Starting within the late 1800s and continuing until its closure in 1979, the shop complex and its accompanying yards, transfer sheds, and stockyards constituted a massive force within the economy of North Carolina and Southern states. The trains that the shop prepared were hauling on a regular basis freight―Appalachian lumber, Piedmont textiles, and perishables―or were famous passenger trains like the Crescent, the Peach Queen, and lots of more. Others were more notable, such as the locomotive within the folk ballad “The Wreck of the Old 97” or President Roosevelt’s funeral train in 1945. The Spencer Shops used to be an industrial power whose prominence lately is celebrated in its continued role as the house to the North Carolina Transportation Museum. This book tells the tale of how Spencer Shops came to be, its role in transportation, and its continued use lately as a North Carolina Historic Web site.

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