Selma, NC: Amtrak/Union (Southern & ACL) & Moved 1855 Mitchner Depots, Caboose and Huge Feed Mill

Union: (Satellite)

Original Mitchner Location: (Satellite)

New Mitchner Location: (Satellite) The move is just a couple of blocks down Railroad Street.

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Union Station is in the middle, the caboose is on the right and the grain bins of the feed mill is on the left.

Street View, Dec 2024

This was the original depot on the Southern route. I wonder who has maintained the roof so far.

Street View, Mar 2022

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Selma NC, reportedly the oldest train station in the state.

jocoreport, Johnston County Report Photo by John Payne
[The article says that North Carolina Railroad owns the former-Southern right-of-way, so it appears that NS interchanges locomotives as well as freight.]

Mark Austin posted
Original Selma NC station getting a new foundation.   Just down a smidge is the 1924 newer station.
[I can tell by the buildings on the right that the depot has yet to be moved. So it is not getting its new foundation here. It will get the new foundation down by Sellers and Railroad Streets.]

Mark Austin commented on his post
More detail on the old station.....

Rob Mosley, Jan 2022

It is nice seeing Amtrak using a train station instead of building a shack somewhere else.

Karl Hess (KH), Jan 2017

It looks like CSX has kept this ACL route.

Quinn Kotorman, Apr 2021

The feed mill is huge. It has a loop of track to efficiently handle unit trains. I think the unloading is on the west side of the loop and loading is on the north side. Of note is that the majority of the cars in the yard are tank cars instead of hoppers.

Satellite

I can get a view of the west end of the loop. I see there is also a loading facility near the south end of the loop on the right side of this view.

Street View, Jun 2014

The silos and bins in the background are part of a materials handling company.

stsofnc

stsofnc_feedmill

But most of the facility is used to receive freight from CSX and NS, store it, and then load it onto trucks.

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