Seaboard Air Line Railway was created in the 1880s by the consolidation of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, which dated back to the earliest decades of American railroads, and other lines in the Carolinas into a single system.
Seaboard’s lease of the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway in 1889 gave it a connection to Atlanta.
SAL absorbed the Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad (Macon to Vidalia) in 1958.
RailroadsSeaboard, a folder in the vertical files of the Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Public Library.
The depot's northeast facade faces the railroad tracks, while its northwest side overlooks Tryon Street The southwest side is bounded by the termination of East 13th Street and a concrete retaining wall erected in 1917; the southeast facade overlooks the street and an ample parking area.
Rooms on this floor were largely for the railroad's use: an office and engineers' dormitory, each 15 by 28 feet; conductors' and train master's rooms, each 15 by 12 feet; telegraph room, 13 by 15 feet; and convenience areas.
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