Thomasville, NC: Visitor Center/Southern Depot and Caboose

Depot: (Satellite)

Caboose: (Satellite)

Street View, Feb 2023

David Boate posted five photos with the comment: "The former historic train station in Thomasville, North Carolina—now the Thomasville Tourism & Visitors Center at 44 W. Main Street—is formally known as the Thomasville Railroad Passenger Depot. It is widely recognized as one of the oldest surviving frame (wood) railroad depots in North Carolina, dating to circa 1870–1871, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)."

Randall Hampton: The station used to be on the other side of the tracks. When it came over to this side, it was rotated 90 degrees and had a freight warehouse attached on the west side, to make it a freight station. They painted it gray. It was like this all the years that the "new" passenger station was in existence.

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Sometimes a town will get a caboose from a different railroad, but it indeed was the Southern Railroad that served this town.

1949/52 High Point West quad @ 24,000

 Jo'von Boyd (iSaleSingles), Mar 2025

The above plaque confirms that chair manufacturing was an important part of the town's economy. (Satellite)

Street View, Apr 2017

I don't know which building has this wall mural, but it depicts a different chair.

Robin K, Sep 2023

This is a rare example of the fireman avoiding producing black smoke even though he knows he is passing railfans.

Photo, Jan 2024