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Seaboard Coastline Building
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<h2 id="passenger-train-terminal">Passenger train terminal</h2> <p>The station served multiple passenger trains daily. One train was the Portsmouth section of the SAL's full service <i><a href="/facts/Silver_Comet_(train)/1ETKQt4P">Silver Comet</a>,</i> bound for Raleigh, North Carolina, Athens and Atlanta in Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama. Another train, #3-11 southbound/#6-10 northbound, was a coach-only train to Atlanta, making local stops along the way.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The <i>Silver Comet</i> had its last trip into the station in 1968, when the SAL's successor, the merged <a href="/facts/Seaboard_Coast_Line/AwvY2XeE">Seaboard Coast Line</a>, terminated passenger service on the branch leading into Portsmouth.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="use-in-recent-years">Use in recent years</h2> <p>After the building was used for railroad purposes, it was used as the municipal building until 1980.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> It was listed on the <a href="/facts/National_Register_of_Historic_Places/leUNvfW6">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1985.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <table><tbody><tr><th scope="col">Preceding station</th><th scope="col" colspan="3"><a href="/facts/Seaboard_Air_Line_Railroad/MvGkcAvM">Seaboard Air Line Railroad</a></th><th scope="col">Following station</th></tr><tr><td>Purvistoward Norlina</td><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad/1tcpDcRN">Norlina-Portsmouth</a></td><td></td><td><i>Terminus</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Douglas J. Harnsberger (July 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Seaboard Coastline Building" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo <a href="http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/124-0053_Seaboard_Coastline_Building_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/124-0053_Seaboard_Coastline_Building_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Tables 1, 27". Official Guide of the Railways. 82 (8). National Railway Publication Company. August 1949. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Seaboard Air Line timetable, December 15, 1967, Table 21 -in service <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Seaboard Air Line Railroad [dropped from schedule]". Official Guide of the Railways. 101 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1968. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Douglas J. Harnsberger (July 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Seaboard Coastline Building" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo <a href="http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/124-0053_Seaboard_Coastline_Building_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/124-0053_Seaboard_Coastline_Building_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. <a href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP" target="_blank">https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>