050489 The N.C. Transportation Museum at Spencer, N.C., houses an eclectic collection of equipment, but most of the equipment has ties to North Carolina.

Here, on adjacent tracks in the former Southern Railway roundhouse, a Piedmont & Northern boxcab electric (foreground) keeps company with former Southern Railway steam locomotive 542 (center) and former Seaboard Air Line locomotive 544.

The boxcab is a freight motor from an interurban operation that carried both passengers and freight.

SR 542, a 2-8-0, spent many years in the open in a park at Clemmons, N.C. The sole remaining example of Southern Railway's class J, this 1903 Baldwin-built locomotive is awaiting restoration and is missing some external parts, such as its headlight.

SAL 544, an American Locomotive Co. product from 1918, is a 2-10-0 decapod that was originally built for the Russian state railroad but never delivered following the revolution of 1917. It was re-gauged for use in the U.S. and served on the Seaboard system in North Carolina, based in both Hamlet and Raleigh. It was cosmetically restored in 1996.

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