Hit the road, shack -- and don't you come back no more (except to Leigh Farm)

Faithful BCR reader and commenter Bullicious snapped some nice photographs last week of the old Amshack's final (for now) trip.

How fitting, after seeing off so many Durham train travelers from its little hovel of a station, that the Bull City should be able to bid adieu to the double-wide as it gets towed down the street?

Happily -- for the double-wide and for taxpayers -- the Amshack is finding a new home, as the visitor center at Leigh Farm Park, the South Durham historical/nature park that promises to be that half of the county's counterpart to the Eno River recreation areas.

Hey, a structure with wheelchair-accessible bathrooms isn't anything to sneeze at. Staff began disassembling the Amshack even the very morning of the new West Village-housed Durham Amtrak station's opening.

Comments

[Not Me]

I'm really concerned that Durham will have a hard time pulling in visitors from other southern cities... now that our welcoming station for those arriving by train is no longer a trailer, it will really scare away some folks....

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