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The station was originally built with a single island platform; a station head house at the south end, in Battery Park; and a secondary entrance at the northern end of the platform, adjacent to Bowling Green Park.
History. The Murphy Branch of the Western North Carolina Railroad delivered thousands of mountaineers from the wilderness of their landlocked hills. A year after iron rails reached Asheville in 1880, workers scattered to the west of the city, digging, filling, and blasting an extension of the line that stretched 116 miles to Murphy, providing ...
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Jan 9, 2008 · What I found was perplexing: most sources described Charlotte Speedway as a dirt track built near the old airport in 1949, where stock car races were held. And yet, pictured here was an indy race on a wooden track, and the card appeared to be much older than 1949. I kept searching for traces of the speedway, to no avail.
May 12, 2021 · Royal Hudson No. 2839 had a short but highly promoted run as an excursion engine in Western North Carolina in 1979 and 1980. It was a 4-6-4 design, which suited it for speed over flat distances ...
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Oct 6, 2019 · The Courier Journal reported Oct. 1, 1925, that the Louisville & Nashville passenger station on Kentucky Street officially opened at five past noon, when locomotive No. 5 arrived from Nashville.
Oct 5, 2008 · Built in 1923, this building is now a train museum and is on the National Register of Historic Places. www.historicrailpark.com/index.html
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Union Station at Bowling Green. 1925. 401 Kentucky St. (Photograph by Cristina Carbone) (Photograph by Cristina Carbone) (Photograph by Cristina Carbone) ☰ SEE METADATA. Union Station at Bowling Green was built only after the retirement of Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) president Milton Hannibal Smith, who had vowed to let the old ...
