SPENCER.
The North Carolina Transportation Museum The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina, USA is a transportation museum devoted mostly to rail history, but it also contains early forms of North Carolina transportation, antique automobiles, and a few aircraft exhibits. plans a $30 million
expansion that includes redeveloping a 100,000-square-foot backshop.
Officials at the 18-year-old museum hope the improvements will make the
site a major tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism.
It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". that can double annual attendance to
200,000 visitors per year.
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