by matthewsaggie
Starting June 4th NC adds another Piedmont to the schedule from Charlotte to Raleigh. This will make 3 daily Piedmont's plus the Carolinian each way each day. 4th Piedmont in late 2019 or 2020.
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But not all of the 68-year-old station is headed to a landfill. Two key features — the canopy that sheltered passengers on the platform and some of the wood benches in the waiting room — will be reused. Again.
The canopy and the benches were originally parts of other train stations and are decades older than the Raleigh depot where they found a second life. Now they are considered historic artifacts worth preserving, said Allan Paul, deputy director of the N.C. Department of Transportation’s Rail Division.
east point wrote:Rickety ? Any pictures ?Arlington posted the pictures. Rickety is exactly what I mean. It has some tem-permanent cribbing under the beams on the north (west) side, although in my observation it may be a few inches short of actually making contact with the beams.
gokeefe wrote:That cribbing definitely looks like a stop-gap measure. Never meant to be permanent.I agree, it was probably not meant to be permanent, but as I mentioned before, somewhere along the line "temporary" became "tempermanent". Do you have any idea why a monstrosity such as this should exist?
Bob Roberts wrote:Have the city fathers in Spartanburg ever inquired to NCDOT about the price of an extended Piedmont or two daily? It wouldn’t be a silly thing for NC to investigate either, because it puts them in a decent position to negotiate with NS re: Asheville via Saluda. No, seriously.Station Aficionado wrote:(assuming that they’re not going to do anything with the flag stop for the Crescent in Gastonia).Gastonia does frequently get mentioned as a possible end point for Piedmont services. The current (very right wing) speaker of the NC House is from the adjacent county to the West and he recently pushed through a feasibility study of the extension of Piedmont trains all the way to Kings Mountain (see link below for a very brief mention of this). Unfortunately I think Charlotte's new passenger equipment service yard (not yet opened) and NS's "parking lot" status South of Charlotte are going to block any easy Piedmont expansions.
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Light rail to Belmont (the eastern edge of Gaston county) does look likely if Charlotte can find $$$ for transit expansion
Station Aficionado wrote:Well, it would be a fun ride for those of us born too late to ride the Carolina Special!They could pay for the extension with railfan fares & souvenirs alone