North Carolina: ‘Al Capone may have sat on them.’ Amtrak salvages history from Raleigh’s train station.

By Richard Stradling, The News & Observer; July 23, 2018

Now that passengers are catching Amtrak trains at Raleigh Union Station, the city’s old brick train depot on Cabarrus Street will soon be demolished.

But not all of the 68-year-old station is headed to a landfill. Two key features — the canopy that sheltered passengers on the platform and some of the wood benches in the waiting room — will be reused. Again.

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