Rails Through the Longleaf

A model railroad empire through northwest Florida.

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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Tallahassee Then & Now

I recently took some photos of the Tallahassee freight and passenger depots. Here's a comparison with historic photos. Here's the freight station today (it now houses the Amtrak station and some county offices):




Here's the same building in the 1880s:

Here's the passenger station today. It's still CSX property, but not open to the public:


And here's the same building in 1910 and 1924, respectively:


Pretty cool. In layout news, I'm getting ready to place an order for some cork roadbed and track. I'd like to have the track layed on the lower level by February, then finish the framing for the rest of the layout after that.

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