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Amtrak might only be 32 years old, but it’s not too early to start preserving the national passenger railroad’s history.

The state of North Carolina recently received a retired Amtrak F-40PH diesel locomotive to display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer.

Transported by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway, locomotive #307 was taken from Amtrak’s Beech Grove, Ind., maintenance facility to the museum’s Back Shop Hall, where it will be restored and displayed.

The locomotive was one of 216 F-40 engines that pulled passenger cars between 1976 and 2001. Amtrak began phasing out the 16-cylinder, 3,000 horsepower locomotives in 1997 as more modern engines became available. The last F-40 was taken out of service in 2001.