Union Station Railroad Museum

he Union Station Railroad Museum in Aberdeen, North Carolina, has preserved the town's historic depot downtown -- a facility built by the Seaboard Air Line but served by many different railroads throughout the passenger era. The museum exhibits railroad artifacts and memorabilia collected from the community, the nearby Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad Company, and other railroad enterprises that passed through Union Station or operated in the surrounding region. Built circa 1900, the depot itself was designed by T. B. Creel and features Victorian architecture. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and a renovated Aberdeen & Rockfish caboose sits on the house track side of the building. The museum is located on the corner of Main Street and Sycamore Street in downtown Aberdeen, adjacent to the busy CSX Transportation mainline between Hamlet and Raleigh and near the eastern terminus of shortline Aberdeen, Carolina & Western.