The agency has been closed and its functions have been replaced by a Mobile Agent based in Talladega. The former, steam-era, crew change point and Subdivision namesake building sits empty in its final days          
The large, silver pole-mounted box at the end of the building contains the company telephone that has been located from inside the depot. The Mobile Agent would leave Clearance Cards, Train Orders, Messages, Waybills and Switch Lists for the Lineville Switcher in this box after the depot was retired. This practice stopped a few months after this photo after the Lineville Switcher assignment was abolished
Date: 6/15/1982 Location: Lineville, AL   Map Show Lineville on a rail map Views: 346 Collection Of:   Bernie Feltman
Author:  Bernie Feltman
The agency has been closed and its functions have been replaced by a Mobile Agent based in Talladega. The former, steam-era, crew change point and Subdivision namesake building sits empty in its final days
Picture Categories: Station This picture is part of album:  SCL/SBD (Black/Yellow) Alabama/Florida roster/still shots
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Robert Farkas General Looking at the condition of the jointed rail by the depot, it must have been quite a few decades old. 1/1/2012 4:46:47 PM
Bryan Smith General A sad sight. Once a hub commerce now living out it's final years in obscurity. One of the biggest shames of modern railroading is the elimination of the small town depots. And usually when the depot closed, the business the railroad used to handle moved to trucks. 1/1/2012 7:52:53 PM
Jeffrey Allen General Thanks for preserving the memory of the Lineville depot!! 1/1/2012 8:19:42 PM
Charles Burgess General Shame to see it in such bad shape. 1/1/2012 10:44:59 PM
Charles Stookey General The passing of the local depot and its attendant hustle and bustle is sad indeed. In the years before about 1950 the paper I worked for sent a reporter to the train station on a daily basis just to see who was coming and going. Always something worthwhile to report there. I wish I had lived in that era. What memories I would have. 1/3/2012 1:11:39 AM

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