Wilson, NC: Checkerboard Grain Elevator and Amtrak/SCL/ACL Depot

Grain Elevator: (Smithfield and Purina)

Depot: (Satellite)

SCL = Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

ACL = Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

Bruce Baker posted three photos with the comment:

SBD customer Purina Mills Wilson NC, 1-28-87.

SBD customer Purina Mills Wilson NC 12-84 (line of old covered hoppers).

SCL (SBD) GP7 964 Purina Mills Wilson NC 10-84.

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Dennis DeBruler commented on Bruce's post
It is no longer rail served, https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z9vsdpZcLHvrseVv7.
And the checkerboard is gone, https://maps.app.goo.gl/8UBmpU1tUsaw19fe9.

I used this aerial photo to find the grain elevator because I did not find it when I first looked on a satellite image. It is off to the west of the mainline.

Mar 4, 1975 @ 24,000; AR1VDQW00010303

Does Purina now do just pet food?

Purina

Depot

Street View, Jan 2023

The depot still has a waiting room rather than an event space.

Bernie Wagenblast, Mar 2023

Jon Strickland, Jun 2017