Broad Street is now a museum, with Staples Mills Road station serving Richmond. After a few years of being shuttered, Main St was reopened for Newport News trains in the 2000s. Long term plans involve re-opening the "S-Line" (former SAL) for passenger trains to Petersburg, Norfolk and the Carolinas and Florida, which would serve Main Street again. The basic EIS has been completed but the work is still a long way off, if it ever starts.
There was a "Broad and Main" streetcar (and I presume the replacement bus still runs) that connected the two stations, but I suppose most used a taxi.
No shared station. C&O shared Main St with SAL, ACL used Broad St. RF&P trains used the connecting road's (ACL's or SAL's) station, with RF&P-only trains using Broad St. SAL started using Broad St in the late 1950s, with their trains still passing Main St. on the viaduct there.
Where in Richmond VA do ACL passenger trains interchange with the C&O for passenger trains going to Chicago.
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