Tobacco and railroads - Durham, North Carolina

[CraigZ]

http://www.opendurham.org/buildings/blackwells-durham-tobacco-american-tobacco-co?full has a long discussion on the American Tobacco complex in Durham, NC...one of several that used to be in Durham.  Durham (pronounced Derm - one syllable down here...) was built on tobacco money and was eventually served by the Southern, the N&W, the Seaboard Air Line, the Durham & Southern and the original Norfolk Southern.  The NS was the last to get to Durham, but was the railroad that served the American Tobacco complex.  Some aerials in this piece where you can see the warehouses, the sidings in the complex, and a run-around track just outside the building.  Might make for a nifty shunty plank...

 

 

[trisonic]

Great  Linkage Craig!

Brought back some great memories from the late eighties, early nineties. I really like the "Hill Warehouse" building but can understand some of the views expressed that a lot of the building are not really attractive enough to be saved - ii's a difficult one to answer...

Photographs and drawings are very good. I like the 1958 photos - strange to see so many "fins" collected in one place! Actually you can understand  designs changing every year back then -  the demand for "something different" must have been great.

Rewards some study.

I always liked Durham as a place. What's the score in Winston - Salem?

 

Best, Pete.

[clark33]

Craig you ‘hit the spot’. I was just researching transport of cotton bales and tobacco hogsheads loaded by forklift into the Southern ‘Big Boy’ cars. Like on http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1963/63-7/big.html

 

I still have an aged Ambroid kit, a ‘shelf queen’ that needs finishing, like on eBay item338264868

 

Mustn’t forget http://www.hosam.com/srr/srr.html#HTC

 

Makes me realise that the roof-top product signage for Lucky Strike immediately shows the era.

 

Phil