Member Response Indicates Facility Is On The Right Track.

Few credit union buildings manage to capture the very heart and soul of a CU's membership as Clinchfield FCU's facility has done.

In fact, the railroad credit union's building, modeled after the old train depot in which the CU got its start 57 years ago, is so special that people have actually been known to join CFCU simply because they wanted to see the inside of the building.

"We were in the old depot for many years, but we outgrew the space we had there," said Sandy Lingerfelt, CEO of the $52-million credit union. "It got so we had two people who had to work off the corner of my desk for two years."

Then CFCU moved to an old house, …