Fireworks Over Historic Spencer Shops

Fireworks Over Historic Spencer Shops
Enjoy a night of family fun at the N.C. Transportation Museum for Fireworks Over Historic Spencer Shops on Saturday, July 1! Museum buildings and exhibits close at 5 p.m. Activities begin at 5:30 p.m. and wrap up with the fireworks show beginning at 9:15 p.m.
On display will be the Ride of Pride trucks from Daimler Trucks North America’s Cleveland, NC plant. Activities include a balloon twister artist, bubble show, DJ music, inflatables, corn hole, and other lawn games.
For a small fee, guests are invited to take a ride in a WWII era Dodge Weapons Carrier, as well as a ride on our turntable, the centerpiece of railroad operations at the largest remaining roundhouse in North America. All other activities are free. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.

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It's been years since I visited Spencer Shops. My dad used to take my brother snd myself there when visiting my stepmother's parents (she and her parents and her grandmother were fantastic, wonderful people) in Salisbury, NC. Back then, in the mid-80s, I would wander around the place and in and out of some the buildings that weren't on the official route. I discovered a large, long building and inside was one of those massively huge, streamlined, diesel locomotives that I had only seen in the movies or at the beginning of "Superman". It was covered in dust from sitting in in there for so many years, but It was still a very impressive sight with the sun's rays shining through the skylights that ran down the center of the building, directly over the tracks.