Little Rock Union Station, the third depot to stand on the site, opened to the public in 1921. The first depot was built by the Cairo & Fulton Railroad in…
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The Amtrak station in Burlington, opened in July 2003, is sited in the former engine house of the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR), the only remnant of a railroad maintenance facility…
The current Amtrak station in Cary was built in 1996 and sits where two rail lines diverge to head west and south. It contains a waiting area for Amtrak passengers…
Located approximately two miles northeast of downtown in the busy Norfolk Southern rail yard, the current Charlotte station was built for the Southern Railway in 1962 to house passenger service…
On July 8, 2009, Amtrak began serving the current station in Durham located in the restored Walker Warehouse, a historic brick structure erected in 1897 by the American Tobacco Company…
Located on downtown’s northern edge, the Hope depot was built in 1912 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of Missouri Pacific Railway, more commonly known…
The Fayetteville train station was constructed in 1911 by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. This is actually the third depot to be built at the corner of Hay and Hillsborough…
Passengers at Arkadelphia use a covered outdoor waiting area located at the restored Missouri Pacific Railroad depot. The one-story red brick building, designed in the Mediterranean Revival style and featuring…
Passengers at Gastonia use a small brick structure located northeast of downtown and just south of Interstate 85. The city’s passenger rail service originated in 1873; however, the original train…
The Amtrak stop in downtown Yuma consists of a platform waiting area adjacent to the site of the old Southern Pacific Railway passenger station. When Amtrak took over passenger service…
Amtrak established the Great American Stations Project in 2006 to educate communities on the benefits of redeveloping train stations, offer tools to community leaders to preserve their stations, and provide the appropriate Amtrak resources.
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