I’d hope so since it was there begining in 1950!
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Looks like a garden center
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That’s the previous station! 
Here’s the history.
- Pre-1890: The North Carolina RR (later to be operated by Southern Railway) and the Raleigh & Gaston RR (later to become part of the Seaboard Air Line) use a joint passenger station roughly at today’s south end of West St. I believe that station predated the Civil War.
- 1890: The first Raleigh Union Station opens. Headhouse still exists at the corner of Martin and Dawson. At some point the prior station is torn down.
- 1942: Seaboard Air Line builds its own station that would later house the Cafe and Logan Trading.
- 1948: The original Norfolk Southern RR discontinues its last passenger train and leaves Union Station.
- 1950: Southern builds its own station. Last passenger train in 1964. Reused as a restaurant.
- Post-1950: Platform behind Union Station is torn out. Headhouse remodeled for commercial tenants.
- 1971: Amtrak takes over passenger service, occupying the Seaboard station.
- 1986: Amtrak moves to the ex-Southern station.
- Post-1986: Seaboard station reused for commercial tenants. Ex-Southern station expanded.
- Last ten years: new Raleigh Union Station. The ex-Southern station is razed for redevelopment by the North Carolina RR (now 100% NCDOT-owned), and the area around the ex-Seaboard station is redeveloped.
I should add that very briefly, the original Norfolk Southern RR used their office at West and Jones for passenger service.
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Tell me now - it honestly would not take that much more digging to get under that rail road track!!! Also taken today.
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And FWIW, we don’t need to make this tall enough for 18 wheelers. I was in Charlottesville the other day and they have a 10’ tall bridge on the main road through campus. Get a firetruck under it and call it good.
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Haven’t we tried this already in both Raleigh and Durham with lots of destroyed trucks?
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And?
You say that like it’s a negative 
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Good golly that 
gets me every time. It is so distracting. Sign. Double sigh.
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That appears to be a CMU stair shaft
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Bubble burst, but I will take stairs, stairs are good. Right?
Good for your 
extra chars
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