Hamlet, NC: (Amtrak+Museum)/SAL Depot

(Satellite)

I had duplicate posts, so this one is now for the depot and that one is for the railyards.

"The City of Hamlet purchased the station from CSX and moved it across the tracks to its current location.  The station was completely restored and is used by Amtrak as a waiting room for the Silver Star trains (# 91 + # 92, both daily, both stop in Hamlet overnight)." [RailfanLocations]

Street View

 

Seaboard Air Line Railroad posted
Seaboard's Hamlet, NC station with the historic SAL Hotel behind it, 1915. Historic Hamlet collection.
Jim Kelling shared
Hamlet NC (Seaboard junction station, now a museum)

HamletHistoricalDepot_gallery

Seaboard Air Line had two routes through this city and their depot sat in the northwest quadrant of the crossing.

safe_image for JOHN COWGILL: STORIES OF THE RAILROAD

Ed Komasara, Nov 2017

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"In 1870, a railroad ran from Wilmington to the Pee Dee River and on to Charlotte. In 1877, a railway was established running from Raleigh to Augusta. The crossroads of these two rails occurred at Hamlet and spurred population growth for this town. Hamlet, incorporating on February 9, 1897, has always been a railroad town with five spurs radiating from the town to Richmond, Wilmington, Atlanta/Birmingham, Savannah/Charleston and Columbia."

 

1 of 5 photos posted by Steve Wood
Photos courtesy of Ray Givens.
Bryan Russell: Hamlet, I’m guessing this is a coal train on the east-west connector.

1949 Hamlet Quad @ 24,000

I had to find a later topo map because this railyard did not exist in 1949.

1957 Hamlet Quad @ 24,000

The basement of the museum has a model layout of the way the city looked.

JohnCowgillStoriesOfTheRailroad, this webpage has many more photos of the interior of the depot

 

HamletHistoricalDepot_gallery

A lot of tracks have been replaced by a park.

Street View, May 2013

The rotunda space can be leased.

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