Here we are near Jamestown and the GTCC campus near Ragsdale High School. If you are headed to High Point, you are on High Point Road. If you are headed to Greensboro, you are on Greensboro Road. As you approach downtown Greensboro, the name of the road changes to Lee Street. At any rate, you see the walls on both sides of the road are covered with graffiti and the train cars passing by overhead are full of graffiti. Sometimes the spray painted words are social messages; other times, they reflect the name of the “Krylon artist” or a friend who had a fatal car accident in the given area.

Greensboro has been a big railway hub since the 1800’s. The access to railways to ship goods– from raw materials to finished products– in and out of Greensboro brought us our textile mills. In 2010, we were 3rd in volume of the 16 Amtrak stations in North Carolina. On average, Amtrak serves almost 300 passengers a day out of Greensboro. If you came to this post in search of information about railways, you will be happy to know that Greensboro has an active chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Here’s to our dear friends at Ruby Tuesday who love photo with red in them. Click through if you love red!