North Carolina Transportation Museum

Wonderful pictures; thanks for posting.

Suggestion only:  go to the "midweek photo fun" thread and post one picture of your trip to NCMT and supply a link to this thread in that post.  Doing so would add some support to that weekly thread.  It would also fit well with my post there of photos from a 1993 611 excursion trip from Atlanta.  My post shows 611 pre-restoration, and yours will show the current state of the restoration work. 

Nice pictures

Yes thank you...very nice photos.  It looks like the tender is ready for paint and the 611 is almost ready as well.  Ahhhh it won't be long now...

Great photos.

Nice photos. Thanks for sharing! 

Great photos. Thanks for sharing. It's been a few years since I visited that museum. Really great place. One of my highlights was being able to get a cab ride in 6133. It was the last ride of the day and I got to ride while they put her away in the roundhouse. Last time i saw 611 she was in Virginia.

Thank you Pingman for the tip.  I will definitely try to post on the "midweek photo fun" thread. 

Glad to see the pictures here...on the forum wherever they belong.

I will begin volunteer duty there shortly.

Thanks for posting these nice pictures. I was wondering about the steam engine next to the #542. I couldn't see the engine number in the photo. Do you have any info on it?

Thank you-

From their website:

"Seaboard Air Line #544: The locomotive was built by the American Locomotive Company in March 1918. This 2-10-0 Decapod was built for the Russian State Railroad, but never delivered due to the Revolution of 1917. Before the locomotive could be used in the U.S, wider tires had to be installed since the Russian Railroads used 5-foot gauge, instead of 4 feet 8 ½ inches. It then became the property of the United States Railroad Administration, begun in 1917 to control the shipment of vital war supplies during World War I. Decapods were employed on branch lines throughout the Seaboard system, being based in North Carolina at Hamlet and Raleigh. During the 1950s these decapods were transferred to the Gainesville Midland, a Seaboard subsidiary in Georgia. The 544 was placed on display in Atlanta in 1965 and later sold to the North Carolina Railroad Company in 1980, which donated the locomotive to the State of North Carolina. The 544 was cosmetically restored in 1996 for display in the Robert Julian Roundhouse."

Great photos!  I found out about this museum in a roundabout way: I was watching the Cabarrus Weekly program on Youtube that took place from the Lionel offices in NC, and in the beginning of the show, there is a photo of SAL 544 shown quickly (along with other NC attractions and activities).

Just searching "locomotive 544 North Carolina" led me to info about the museum.  Looks like a great place!

Thanks for posting I enjoyed the photos!

Thank you. I remember this engine now. Glad to see it is safe and sound.