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North Carolina Transportation Museum
Posted by ns&emdfan on Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:21 PM

As some may know NCTM has a Raildays festival every year in the month of June. They have a few of there units out pulling trains, moter car rides, model RR set ups and sales, some equipment from NS an etc. Well thay had it advertised a night photo shoot for the night of Sat 13 of some equipment, considering the Fs, the 4610 and a couple other pieces of NS equipment most would assume that the Fs would probably be in that i mean the are in a SOU heritage scheme so they would look great in front of the round house. (my opinion) Well that being said a decent amount of railfans come up from other states and areas to see this. So it gets dark so we all go to the museum to get our shots we look for some staff and we ask em "where is the night shoot taking place" they say "oh were not having one" now i dont have the only intention of just "dissing" the museum but they advertised something that they ended up just not doing. So we try and talk to the lead HR representative at the museum and she was very snoby and shrt with us and just plain un helpful and rude. Now i may be in the wrong posting this on here but i just wanted to get some honest opinions from people on this and if i have offended anybody on here please say so.

 

Any coments are very well appreciated

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Monday, June 15, 2009 10:42 AM

Every year during the State Fair, NC and Amtrak add a temporary stop at the fairgrounds for the Piedmont and the Carolinian.  I wonder if they've ever considered doing that at the Transportation Museum during their special events.

Dave

Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow

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Posted by ns&emdfan on Monday, June 15, 2009 11:06 AM

Ya know that is a good idea but they had a tram service last year to and from the amtrak station to the museum but they did not have it this year. But that is a great idea about the 73/74 stoping at the museum and im not sure why the do not do that.

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