Spencer, North Carolina

The pictures above are from a little town called Spencer, North Carolina that now houses North Carolina's Transportation Museum but was also the original Spencer Railroad Locomotive manufacturing facility and later Southern Railroads shop for various rail repair. Unfortunately, they were closed but we were still able to "sneak" a peek at some of the equipment, the roundhouse, the old station, and some older cars and equipment. I had been there before and will stop back again as we are in this area every year but to the railroad buff its quite a place. I would recommend anyone with an interest in rail history to stop and see it if given the opportunity.

Tomorrow starts the reason we are here...The Carolina Brick Forum... a collection of almost all of the brick salesmen in the US and as the manufacturing facilities are substantially foreign owned its almost international. Having been in the business many years it will be interesting to hear this years tall tales (Have I worded that delicately enough?) I will be sure to keep everyone up todate on the latest in the brick world....world of brick? Maybe I've been in the business too long!