Poplar Bluff station

Poplar Bluff is a historic train station in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States, served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system.

Poplar Bluff
The Poplar Bluff station in January 2017.
Location400 South Main Street
Poplar Bluff, MO 63901
United States
Owned byPoplar Bluff Historic Depot Restoration Corporation
Line(s)Union Pacific Railroad
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeAmtrak code: PBF
History
Opened1910
Passengers
20174,900[1]  2.85%
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Walnut Ridge
toward Los Angeles or San Antonio
 Texas Eagle Arcadia Valley
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Walnut Ridge
toward Laredo or Houston
 Inter-American St. Louis
toward Chicago
Preceding station Missouri Pacific Railroad Following station
Neelyville
toward Texarkana
 Texarkana – St. Louis Hendrickson
toward St. Louis
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depot
Historic marker near the staircase
Location400 S. Main St., Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Coordinates36°45′13″N 90°23′36″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1910 (1910)
Built bySt. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
MPSPoplar Bluff MPS
NRHP reference No.94001397[2]
Added to NRHPDecember 1, 1994

History

The station was built in 1910 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. When the line and railroad was bought by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1917, the station was renamed the Missouri Pacific Depot, and when the line was bought by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1982, the station was renamed the Union Pacific Depot in 1983, despite the fact that it was already used by Amtrak.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

In 2003, Union Pacific donated the building to the Committee to Save and Restore the Historic Train Depot, a citizens-led non-profit that has since reorganized as the Poplar Bluff Historic Depot Restoration Corporation. The group has worked to raise money to restore the depot to include the exterior and interior.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2017, State of Missouri" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. Philip Thomason (May 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depot" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  4. "Poplar Bluff Station". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Retrieved 25 November 2014.


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