Are there any good rr sites or museums in North Carolina? around Burlington ?
Go to Google, and type in railroad museums North Carolina, and you will get a lot of answers to help you out. Have fun.
garthor:
Check out the North Carolina Transporation Musuem at Spencer www.nctrans.org Spencer was a major service shop for the Southern Railway. Many of the buildings are still there including the roundhouse and turntable, glass house, quartermaster warehouse and the backshop which is currently undergoing renovation.
Dale
One word… HAMLET! This is the big ole’ CSX junction with tracks going every which way. You might consider taking a look into this place.
This is a list from the Tar Heal Press!
The Carolinas are a great place to soak up railroading history, sites, and attractions. A few years back, noted railroad author and preservationist Jim Wrinn sketched out the Top 10 places to visit from the Charlotte region in the June 14th, 1996 edition of the Charlotte Observer. With his permission, we are able to reprint it here. Have more suggestions? Send them in, and we’ll make a Top Twenty list!
1) Saluda Grade. The nation’s steepest mainline railroad grade is in this small town near Tryon. The grade rises as much as 5 feet for more than 100 feet of horizontal travel; normal railroad grades are about 1/5 of that. The grade was the scene of so many runaway train wrecks at the turn of the century that the bottom was named Slaughterpen Cut. You can see it all from Saluda’s quaint downtown, and the Green River Barbecue offers a tasty snack nearby.
2) Andrews Geyser/Loops. It takes the rail line between Old Fort and Ridgecrest 13 rail miles to travel a distance that’s three miles by air. Several tunnels and numerous bridges over Mill Creek give the rail line the chance to coil and twist to gain elevation in the Pisgah National Forest. A park at Andrews Geyser is a great place to watch.
3) Clinchfield Loops near Little Switzerland. From atop the Blue Ridge Parkway just north of Little Switzerland, a turnout provides a vantage point from which to watch the CSX line between Spartanburg,
S.C., and Elkhorn City, Ky. climb across the Blue Ridge. Like the loops near Old Fort, the tracks zigzag to gain elevation between Sevier and Altapass.
4) Tweetsie. Located near Blowing Rock, it’s home to North Carolina’s last narrow gauge steam locomotives. The original Tweetsie was the East
That’s a pretty good list.
Wilmington has a museum that I visited several years ago. As I recall it wasn’t too shabby.
I am going on a trip next weekend. Here’s what I have on my to go list.
Asheville-NS
Greensboro-NS
Salisbury-NS
Statesville-CSX/NS
Spruce Pine-CSX
Hamlet-CSX
Thermal-CSX
Four Oaks
Benson
Bladenburg
Lattimore-CSX
Selma-CSX/NS
Anybody know these places really well. Any other places that I should go to that you have been to?
Kevin