The Saluda Grade is a landmark, and has always been a railfan favorite, but it has also always been a highly impractical piece of railroad. (Perhaps that is precisely why it is a railfan favorite.) If there is one former mainline route in the state that deserves the rail-trail treatment, this is it.
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Siemens has started construction for the Lexington rolling stock facility. Estimated to begin production in Q4 of '24.
It’s located in Lexington Industrial Park on the west side of town.
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@dtraleigh
Please correct me if this is not correct place to add this update, thank you!
And a cool map…
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Does one of the resident rail nerds (I mean that endearingly) know what this service would look like?
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I already love the potential design for the Wilmington station as the rail bed is already below street level. Something like the look of a modern High Point station, but as a terminus. Unlikely, but it would be nice if arrivals in Selma were timed with northbound trains and vice versa. Perhaps more likely with the S-line in Raleigh. I’m really dying for train service here in New Bern, but this is the logical first step.
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Gonna add this here in an effort to keep my only active topic alive 
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