May 2, 2008

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Ride a train from Spencer to Charlottesville and back!

During my last swing past the North Carolina Transportation Museum, I asked one of the staff members there if they were going to run another excursion train anytime soon. He couldn’t give me a firm answer and I was worried I’d missed my chance.

Woo-hoo! I found out today that the museum will be running another excursion passenger train this fall! Its called the Virginia Autumn Flyer and will make the round-trip between Spencer and Charlottesville on November 1st and 2nd of this year.
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Downtown bargain

I saw this on the Longview Gardens website. Its a nearly 5000sf home on a 1.2 acre lot two miles from downtown and across the street from the Raleigh Country Club and its Donald Ross-designed golf course. How such a stately home can be only $315,000 is amazing to me.

Yeah, it fronts New Bern Avenue, but wow what a value. If I had some money to invest in places like this, I’d be all over it.