Suffolk Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

Suffolk's railroad story is older than the Civil War: the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad were both built through the town before the conflict, early predecessors of the CSX and Norfolk Southern lines that still pass through today. Four more railroads followed after the war — Suffolk became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890 — before the merger era that began around 1960 consolidated them all, and passenger trains called here until Amtrak's Mountaineer ended in 1977. At least two of the city's stations survive. One of them, the former Seaboard Coast Line station at 326 North Main Street, now houses the Seaboard Station Railroad Museum, which preserves the depot along with railroad memorabilia and a model train layout depicting Suffolk; the other, the former Norfolk and Western station that served Amtrak as "Holiday Street," still stands a few blocks away at 100 Holladay Street.