Two 1952 units @ 100mw and two 1954 units @ 133mw. The first three units started in 1929 and were retired in the 1970s. [gem]
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| Keith Kennedy posted Mount Holly, NC. That is Duke Energy’s Riverbend Steam Station (now decommissioned) in the background. Randall Hampton: Coal trains used to arrive there regularly behind Clinchfield power. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Keith's post Thanks for identifying the power plant. I see it is still standing and its yard is used to store empty hoppers. https://maps.app.goo.gl/vAAWWwHKp985yMfv8 |
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| Keith Kennedy commented on Dennis' comment unfortunately it has been torn down. Dennis DeBruler: Wow, Google Maps has a really old image. I used Google Earth to determine that it is from Sep 2017. I just determined that I was getting an old image because I had the "Globe view" option turned on. When I turned it off, I lost the 3D view option, but I did get the newer image. Live and learn. |
Back when it had coal in its storage pile.
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| GastonGazette, May 23, 2013 |
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| GastonGazette, Jun 23, 2015 Duke Energy removed the coal ash from the site. |
The railroad was the Seaboard Coast Line (SCL).
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| 1969 Mountain Island Quad @ 24,000 |
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| wvncrails, this web site includes a lot of railfan photos including a coal train being pulled by a Seaboard/Family Lines locomotive and two Clinchfield locomotives. |
By 1970, both railroads were owned by SCL and they chose to retain the larger Piedmont & Northern depot because it is still standing.
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| Street View, Aug 2023 |
I found this depot because it is accurately depicted on this topo map. And this is how I learned that the P&N was owned by the SCL by 1970.
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| 1970 Mount Holly Quad @ 24,000 |
Another view back when the coal storage was active:
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| Google Earth, Oct 2009 |
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