The Goldsboro Union Station is a former passenger train depot and future intermodal transit station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States. Originally operating from 1909 to 1968, the Eclectic tw
The Carolina Special was a passenger train operated by the Southern Railway between Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Carolinas. It operated from 1911 to 1968. It was the last passenger train to use the route
Goldsboro Union Station
…connection was made to the Richmond–Florida main line. The Southern Railway operated passenger trains such as the northern branch of the Cincinnati-bound Carolina Special from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Durham to Greensboro. Into the early 1950s the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway ran a daily passenger train from…
Colorized postcard view of an open-deck observation car with drumhead at the end of a Carolina Special consist at Asheville, North Carolina, the female passengers' garb dating it prior to World War I, in the train's first decade of operation.
Postcard of Union Depot in Columbia, South Carolina c. 1907–1912; where the train's South Carolina branch had its southern terminus from 1964 to 1968.