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.
This was used to help clean up after train wrecks. The museum volunteers are practicing with it so that it can be used to help support the turntable for repairs.