Closeup of wheels on one of the engines from the NC Museum of Transportation. I could have spent hours there getting unusual angles on these old railroad engines, and happily so, but alas, the modern world impinged. I caught some good shots though, and will come back to these and do more to play up an old technology so different from what we see today. What happened to this mode of transportation? Now every household has at least one auto per adult, and sometimes more. We take our cars everywhere, think nothing of driving by ourselves when we could easily arrange car-pooling or shared rides or even just saving up errands for all at once. Maybe Uber and other ride-sharing services are the trains of today.