OK, it isn't Thurmond, WV, but Calera was a railroad town, with businesses (including a hotel and a drug store) that fronted on the railroad. That's Southern in the foreground, with L&N on the other side of the shared depot. All these structures are long-gone.
Photos taken in the Deep South--primarily Alabama and Georgia--from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Featured railroads include the ICG, the West Point Route, SCL, Southern, Frisco, and even KCS.