BLACK HISTORY - SCAVENGER MAPThe N.C. Transportation Museum, Spencer, N.C.

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BLACK HISTORY AT THE MUSEUMSCAVENGER STOPS - See reverse for questions

Exhibits and displays relating to black history in transportation are located all across the N.C. Transportation Museum. Use this map to learn more about African American inventors, segregation in transportation, and those that overcame adversity.

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Bumper To Bumper - Discover Garrett Morgan’s inventionBrockway Fire Truck - Learn about the Quick Steps

Roundhouse Facilities - Even Spencer Shops workers were segregatedLining Bar Gangs - Discover how these railroad workers kept timePiedmont Airlines - Learn about Capt. Bill Wilkerson’s amazing career

Hampton & Branchville M-200 - See this formerly segregated rail car

“Jim Crow” Passenger Car #1211 - See this formerly segregated rail car

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Jenny Coupler - Discover Andrew Beard’s railroad invention

Pullman Porters - Learn about these famed railroad workers

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Follow along with the numbered Scavenger Map and STOP when you see the sign:

See if you can answer all 11 questions on the reverse side of the map!

Visitor information and train boardingNOTE: Only open when trains are operating (Saturdays and Feb. 27 & 28)Tickets at the Gift Station all other days

Automotive, aviation and railroading displays in the museum’s largest building

Scavenger

STOP

The Gift Station and Merci Train car “49 Days of Gratitude” exhibit

Railroading exhibits, Wright Brothers and Piedmont Airlines exhibits, railroading restoration shop

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Tyson & Jones Buggy - Learn about the successes of William T. JonesSafe Bus - Learn how Safe Bus fought segregation in transportation

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The N.C

. Transportation Museum

is located on the site of what w

as once Southern Railw

ay’s Spencer Shops, the largest steam locom

otive repair facility in the southeast. This 60-acre site features an authentic train

depot, antique

and vintage

automobiles,

locomotives

and railcars from

the heyday or railroading, aviation exhibits, and North

Am

erica’s largest

remaining

roundhouse. The

museum

offers

seasonal train rides, guided tours for scheduled groups, specialty tours offered seasonally, and events throughout the year.

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Construction of Spencer Shops began in 1896, and the new

facility w

as named in honor of the first president of Southern Railw

ay, Sam

uel Spencer.

Southern’s fleet of freight, passenger, and switching locom

otives w

ere all maintained at Spencer Shops. A

large freight car sw

itching yard, a Roundhouse for the daily service of locomotives,

Shop for heavy overhauls, a power house to provide electricity and steam

for the operation, store houses, adm

inistrative offices and a paint shop w

ere all eventually part of the complex.

During its peak, Spencer Shops em

ployed nearly 3,000 people, which directly and indirectly provided m

ost of the jobs for the tow

ns of Spencer, East Spencer and other surrounding Rowan C

ounty comm

unities. Not only

that, the site was an intergral part of the transportation infrastructure for the southeastern U

nited States during the first half of the 20th century.

Spencer Shops, however, w

as a repair yard for steam locom

otives. With the advent of diesel locom

otives, which

could travel farther with far less m

aintenance than steam engines, the shops w

ent into decline. The repair facility closed in 1960, but the classification (freight) yard rem

ained open until the late 1970s.

In September 1977, Southern Railw

ay donated four acres of the site, including three buildings, to the state of N

orth Carolina. A

second donation in 1979 included several additional historic structures and land, eventually leading to the creation of the N

.C. Transportation M

useum.

Black History Scavenger M

ap Questions

1. Garrett M

organ’s Tra�c Signal - W

hat fake name did G

arrett Morgan go by w

hen trying to promote the gas m

ask he invented?

2. Quick Step H

ook & Ladder Com

pany truck - What w

ere the three specialties of the Quick Steps?

_____, _____, and _______

3. What type of vehicles served W

inston-Salem’s back neighborhoods before the Safe Bus Com

pany was founded?

4. For which arm

y did William

T. Jones �ght during the Civil War?

5. “Jim Crow

” segregated passenger car - What w

as the name of the Suprem

e Court decision which established “Separate

but Equal” into United States law

? What year w

as it passed?

6. Knuckle Coupler - Which lim

b did Andrew

Beard, the inventor of the Jenny knuckle coupler, lose in a Link and Pin coupling accident?

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7. Roundhouse Washroom

- What is the nam

e of the town w

here most of Spencer

Shops’ black employees lived?

8. Lining Bar Gangs - H

ow m

any “gandy dancers” worked on a lining bar gang?

9. Piedmont A

irlines & Capt. Bill W

ilkerson - What year did Capt. W

ilkerson retire from

Piedmont A

irlines?

10. Pullman Porters - W

hat organization did Pullman Porters found?

11. Ham

pton & Branchville M

-200 - Where in N

orth Carolina was this car built?