Poplar Bluff station explained

Style:Amtrak
Poplar Bluff, MO
Country:United States
Owned:Poplar Bluff Historic Depot Restoration Corporation
Tracks:2
Opened:1910
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Nrhp:
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depot
Embed:yes
Coordinates:36.7536°N -90.3933°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman
Added:December 1, 1994
Area:less than one acre
Mpsub:Poplar Bluff MPS
Refnum:94001397

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

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.[1] 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.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Depot. 2016-09-01. Philip Thomason. PDF. May 1994. Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
  2. Web site: Poplar Bluff Station. Amtrak's Great American Stations. 25 November 2014. 24 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043605/http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/PBF. dead.