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3 Head Wrench Used At Spencer Shop 3-head wrench, used at Spencer Shops, Southern Railway. Loan from North Carolina Transportation Museum. As the buildings in this street scene show, Spencer provided shopping and all the other services its citizens needed in their daily activities. Note the painted sign for 'Stanback's Headache Powder,' a product invented by a druggist in Salisbury that, by the late 1920s, had developed a market throughout the Southeast and in other parts of the country. Part of a small array of hand tools such tools were used in the inspection and repair of steam locomotives. Light repairs on steam locomotives were usually done in roundhouses at the many small locomotive terminals throughout a railroad's system; heavy repairs were done in a large, centralized repair shop serving the whole system (often referred to as the "Back Shop"). Most of these tools date from the early- to the mid-20th century, roughly 1900-1955. The name of this unusual wrench comes from its obvious shape. The single wrench accommodated three sizes of bolt heads or nuts. It was useful only in locations on a locomotive or railroad car where there was plenty of clearance around a bolt or nut. Spencer, North Carolina, five miles north of Salisbury, N.C., was a town built around the vast Spencer Shops of the Southern Railway (SR). The Shops were the centralized facility that handled heavy repairs of steam locomotives from throughout the SR system. The Shops also handled railroad-car repairs for the SR's central Piedmont area. The town was not built by the railroad, but was developed by landowners in response to the need for housing and community services for the employees of the Shops.
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