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1946 Statistics: C&WC Station #127, 21 car siding, 70 car pass track, 126.8 miles from Augusta and 6.5 miles from Spartanburg.
1914 Schedule:
Train #3 Daily - Westbound to Spartanburg - 9:34pm.
Train #5 Daily - Westbound to Spartanburg - 9:42am.
Train #2 Daily - Eastbound to Laurens - 7:07am.
Train #6 Daily - Eastbound to Laurens - 4:51pm.
1946 Schedule:
Fourth Class #27 Mixed Daily - Westbound to Spartanburg - Flag stop at 4:05pm.
Third Class #93 Through Freight - Westbound to Spartanburg - 4:25pm.
Second Class # 97 Through Freight - Westbound to Spartanburg - 12:30pm.
Third Class #92 Through Freight - Eastbound to Laurens - 2:45pm.
Third Class #94 Through Freight - Eastbound to Laurens - 10:45pm.
Fourth Class #28 Mixed Daily - Eastbound to Laurens - Flag stop at 11:35pm.
Roebuck
was settled by farming families and began as a stagecoach stop around 1790.
Smith’s Tavern offered overnight lodging, food, and drinks for
travelers. Nearby historical Walnut Grove Plantation was
built in 1765 by Charles and Mary Moore on a 3,000 acre land grant from King
George III. United by joint efforts during planting and
harvest, the families established
Moses Foster and later his son John Gill Landrum Foster owned the land encompassing most, if not all the land around the depot. Roebuck Gin and Lumber company (owned by the John G.L. Foster family) was (the buildings still are) directly behind the depot. The Lumber Company buildings and the depot were on the east side of the railroad tracks as they go through Roebuck, generally, north to south at Roebuck and Moore (Moore's Station then). The Roebuck Gin and Lumber Company buildings are all there still [now Joe Griffen Gear and Machine], but the lumber company closed as the children of John Gill Landrum Foster began to die. I suppose their children, only 3, and all girls, one each for the 3 sons, had no interest in running a lumber store. (Courtesy of Betty Jean Foster Dill of Roebuck).
Ms. Dill was kind enough to supply a drawing of the depot. Her nephew, of the Roebuck Fire Department, gave a copy to Ms. Dill. It follows:
Roebuck of today is illustrated in the map below. The position of the depot is marked.
The following is a photo of the Roebuck depot. The date of the photo is uncertain, but the SCL (Seaboard Coast Line) logo is visible above the oil tank. This places the photo at no earlier than 1967. The brick building behind the depot exists today as part of Joe Griffin Gear & Machine on Railroad Avenue in Roebuck. The arrow on the map above also marks the direction of the camera that took the depot photo below.
The following photo is looking North with the approximate depot position marked. Comparing the photos above and below, it is obvious that the pass track has been expanded north beyond the old depot's location.
This next photo is looking South and the additional pass track capacity is obvious. A long coal drag of empties is waiting for a Eastbound coal haul. CSX now uses Roebuck as a major pass track for the coal hauls in and out of Spartanburg some 7 miles away to the North.
This last photo is looking North back towards the old depot location and shows the CSX power lineup.
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