Rail passengers at El Paso are greeted by sunlight as it streams through the large Diocletian or “thermal” windows which ring the upper level of Union Depot’s central waiting room….
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Amtrak is housed in Fort Worth Central Station – known until early 2019 as the Intermodal Transportation Center – which opened to the public in January 2002. Constructed of brick and trimmed…
The brick Gainesville station was built in 1902 for the Gulf Coast & Santa Fe Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). It originally housed…
The current Amtrak station was opened by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) in 1960 and features a bright and airy waiting room with full length windows at each end. Along…
On May 10, 2014—National Train Day—officials from Longview, Amtrak and the East Texas region gathered with local residents to dedicate the city’s renovated depot, which first opened for service in…
The Marshall station was built in 1912 by the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Railroad and contained a waiting room as well as the company’s eastern regional administrative offices. The three-story,…
The unique L-shaped depot in McGregor is a circa 1904 building at the junction of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe (now BNSF) and the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt,…
On June 10, 2006, Mineola’s historic station was rededicated to celebrate the completion of its restoration. From 1974 until 1996, the Amtrak Texas Eagle and its predecessor trains passed through…
Amtrak’s San Antonio station sits between the Alamodome sports facility and the historic Sunset Station, which has long been considered one of the most impressive train stations in the South….
The San Marcos Amtrak stop consists of a platform with a shelter at the city’s intermodal station. Opened in 2001, the $1.9 million facility was funded through federal, state and…
Amtrak established the Great American Stations Project in 2006 to educate communities on the benefits of redeveloping train stations, offer tools to community leaders to preserve their stations, and provide the appropriate Amtrak resources.
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