by NC-Transportation-Museum | Aug 25, 2020 | History
Image courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection The Safe Bus Company operated in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina from 1926 to 1972. The company was originally formed to provide transportation to the city’s underserved black...
by NC-Transportation-Museum | Aug 20, 2020 | History
The oldest fire truck in the museum’s collection replaced a horse-drawn hook and ladder in one Tarheel city and was used by a particularly skilled group of firefighters. The Quick Step Hook and Ladder Company, was Elizabeth City’s all-black volunteer fire...
by NC-Transportation-Museum | Aug 18, 2020 | History
The tale of how Spencer Shops, now home of the N.C. Transportation Museum, came to be located in a rural area just north of the city of Salisbury includes secret land deals with a former U.S. Representative, a railroad needing to keep locomotives on the move, and a...
