Erwin, TN: 1925 Public Library/(ACL+L&N)/Clinchfield Depot and CSX MoW Maintenance Shop

Depot: (Satellite)

Office: (Satellite)

In 1924, the Clinchfield Railroad was "leased to the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville railroads for 999 years." [Carolana via Dennis DeBruler]

Library/Depot

Street View, Jan 2024

 

Office Building

Street View, Jan 2024

Dale Proctor posted
Clinchfield passenger station, Erwin Tenn., 5/26/84
Tom Buckley shared

 

Dale Proctor posted
Clinchfield general office building, Erwin Tenn., 5/26/84

Randall Hampton: The passenger station is peeking out from behind it.

It looks like the waiting room of the depot was turned into a fancy reading room, but I was not able to find any good interior photos of it.

suzy bomgardner, Jul 2021

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The depot was built in 1925.

Evidently Erwin is on the Appalachian Trail.

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While looking for the depot, I noticed a piece of Maintenance of Way (MoW) equipment parked on a siding. I'm guessing that it is some sort of ballast cleaner. I'm glad to see that CSX does have some serious MoW equipment because activist investors don't like money to be "wasted" on maintenance. I noticed that all of the ballast looks nice and white.

Street View, Jan 2024

Actually, it appears that CSX has a maintenance shop for MoW equipment in this town.

Street View, Jan 2024

There is a lot of MoW equipment parked on the other side of that backshop. In fact, is that too much? Why aren't they fixed and back to work?

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