Greensboro is a train city. No surprise that there was and still is a major operations yard for freight there. Major freight operations yards don’t always guarantee that there will be a nice passenger station to compliment said operations these days.
In Greensboro, there is. Introducing the J. Douglas Galyon Depot. Built originally in 1927 as a Southern Railway Outpost, the current station services three Amtrak lines, Greyhound buses, Greensboro Transit Authority buses and also has cabs waiting for people who want that option. Or, visitors could always just walk to one of two hotels in Downtown Greensboro, or call a shuttle to either the O’Henry or the Proximity and experience a couple of other mildly walkable areas in the city.
Enough about what you can do on the ground, what about what time you can arrive or depart? Let’s start with one of the most far-flung points that has a direct rail connection to Greensboro: New Orleans, via the Crescent. After boarding there at 7:00 a.m., you chug into Greensboro at 3:37 a.m. Going the other way? Hop on in Greensboro just after midnight and you’ll end up in New Orleans just after 7:30 p.m. local time, enough time to start indulging on all that city’s famous food.
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