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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doodlebug: [QB] Notelvis, I have indeed visited the Hamlet depot since its restoration. This [URL=http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=124783&nseq=12]picture [/URL]of it is the desktop of my computer, although the fellow in overalls appears much fatter because my screen is wide. Next time you visit, check out the HO scale layout downstairs. A model of the station is the central feature of the layout, which is Hamlet in the 1950s with the [i]Silver Meteor[/i] and [i]Orange Blossom Special[/i] as two of the passenger trains stopping through. The Terminal Hotel, Kiernan, sounds ominous to those who don't realize it got its name from the depot. Scenes from the 1991 Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis movie "Billy Bathgate" were filmed inside the Terminal and a neighbor of mine appeared as an extra in one of them. Other exterior scenes were filmed on Main Street outside as Hamlet was a stand-in for Saratoga, N.Y. When the station was restored, it was also moved, which required demolition of the then-vacant hotel and relocation of Main Street through the old hotel site. There is now a small park and picnic area on part of the old hotel property with an old SAL caboose and an SDP35 passenger/freight locomotive on which I once worked on a piggyback freight run. During the time I was at Carolina, I worked summers and Christmas breaks on the SCL as a brakeman, mostly on the yard extra board but occasionally on freight runs. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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