David Steinberg and Kevin Von Der Lippe 128 pages softcover
Greensboro, North Carolina, is but one of many cities located on former
Southern Railway's Washington-to-Atlanta mainline. Greensboro is not the
largest city between these points, but it has the distinction today of
having the largest and finest Southern Railway passenger station after
Washington. Greensboro has a colorful railroad history that begins in
the 1850s and endures to this day. The large depot was built in the
mid-1920s to serve the tremendous passenger rail traffic that passed
through Greensboro. Its grandeur overshadowed every other depot in the
state. Today, thanks not only to Amtrak, which remains to serve the
city, but also to the passenger train service that the North Carolina
Department of Transportation actively promotes to serve throughout the
state, the depot continues to flourish as an icon of Greensboro.
