 Wilson, VA | Carolinian | Petersburg, VA  |
| Palmetto | ||
| Fayetteville, NC | Silver Meteor | |
 Raleigh, NC | Floridian |
Rocky Mount is an Amtrak Station with four daily trains, the Silver Meteor, Floridian (formerly Silver Star), Carolinian, and Piedmont. The station can be a fresh air stop but isn't always. I've passed through the station three times on trains but was only able to step off once when I was riding the Northbound Palmetto back in 2013.
Trains stop at a single low-level side platform on the west side of the two-track line, with little level pedestrian crossings designed to line up with the doors at the ends of train cars to allow trains to also stop on the opposite track. This platform is 9 cars long and covered by a modern but designed to look historic gabled roofed canopy structure. The platform contains a dark red tractile warning strip, with a yellow line next to it. The platform was rebuilt, and the station completely renovated between 1997 and 2000. Signage on the platform is minimal with a Rocky Mount sign black text on white at each end of the modern canopy structure and a single Welcome to Rocky Mount sign under the canopy that connects the depot to the platform.
In the middle of the platform a wider covered area leads back to the station's historic 1893-built station house. The station is house is a large three main stories (with at least one window in the gable roofed attic) Romanesque Revival building and has a ticket office along with checked baggage service for all trains. This depot leads directly out to Florida Street.
The northern end of the platform is directly along Main Street that curves to run along the train tracks before the main buildings of Rocky Mount's historic downtown business district begin just north of the station.
The southern end of the platform contains a small parking lot along the platform followed by the start of a siding. On this siding is a historic train car, 1902 Atlantic Coast Line Office Car #303. Just beyond this historic railcar is the former and historic Railway Express Agency building, a single-story brick building. This building has been renovated and is today used as the city's intercity bus station and main transfer point for local Tar River Transit bus routes, with 10 bus routes pulsing at the train station.
Photos 1-20 taken on 15 July, 2014; 21 & 22: 16 July, 2014; 23-29: September 2, 2023 out the window of a Piedmont Train; 23-29: out the window of the Silver Star;
