SPENCER – This year get dad in motion for Father’s Day. The perfect gift is to make dad “Engineer for an Hour” at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer. The “Tracks of an Engineer” program is ideal for dads and rail fans everywhere. Let dad control the throttle of a full-sized diesel locomotive.
A 45-minute training session will instruct dad on how to safely operate a diesel locomotive, and on crew communications. Then he will have a full hour of powering down the tracks around the Transportation Museum’s 57-acre grounds. The “Tracks of an Engineer” package is offered at $200 for museum members, $225 for non members, and includes a year’s museum memembership, a photo session, engineer’s hat and certificate, and bragging rights forever.
Dad can plan other excellent adventures with a gift of the newly published book, “Homegrown Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails” a 400-page statewide travel guide released by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. The “Homegrown Handmade” travel guide features 16 self-directed tourism trails in 76 counties. It shows accessible, affordable and fun destinations all across the state, and is available at museum shops and fine book stores everywhere.
So for a day on the tracks or vacations on the trails for years to come, your Father’s Day gift can make lots of great memories. For more information about “Tracks of an Engineer,” call (704) 636-2889, or visit www.nctrans.org. For information on “Homegrown Handmade,” call (919) 807-7385, or visit www.ncculture.com.
The N.C. Transportation is part of the Division of State Historic Sites within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources and observing the theme “Telling Our Stories” in 2008.
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