The NC Transportation Museum is located at the historic Spencer Shops, once the largest steam locomotive maintenance shop in the US. It features a roundhouse with a large turntable for routing locomotives into a arc-shaped maintenance shop. The have a fairly large collection of steam and diesel locomotives, cabooses, and train cars, as well as a small collection of vintage automobiles. All the workers at the museum are unpaid volunteers and admission is free! Donations are gratefully excepted.