{{Short description|Train station in Longview, Texas}} {{about|the Amtrak station in Longview, Texas|the Amtrak station serving Longview, Washington|Kelso Multimodal Transportation Center}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} 300px|thumb|left|Longview station {{Infobox station | style=Amtrak | name=Longview, TX | image=Longview Texas Amtrak station 2.jpg | image_caption=A baggage cart outside Longview in 2008. | address=905 Pacific Avenue<br />Longview, Texas | country = United States | coordinates = {{coord|32.494144|-94.727680|region:US-TX_type:railwaystation|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | owned = City of Longview | line = Union Pacific Railroad<!-- The physical "line" is not the same as "services" which are detailed below --> | other = {{bus icon}} Amtrak Thruway | platform=1 side platform | tracks=2 | parking= | bicycle= | mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Longview}}{{Amtrak ridership|citationTX}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}} | opened=1940 | rebuilt= | accessible= | code={{Amtrak code|LVW}} | services= {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Texas Eagle|left=Mineola|right=Marshall}} | other_services_header = Former services | other_services_collapsible = yes | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Inter-American|left=Dallas|right=Marshall|system2=Missouri Pacific Railroad|line2=El Paso-New Orleans|left2=Greggton|right2=Hallsville|line3=Galveston-Longview|left3=Kilgore}} | other_services2_header = Proposed services | other_services2_collapsible = yes | other_services2 = {{Adjacent stations|system=Amtrak|line=Crescent|left=Mineola|right=Marshall|to-left=Fort Worth|note-mid=Proposed Texas Section}} | embedded = {{Infobox designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = RTHL | designation1_offname = Longview Train Depot | designation1_date = 2014 | designation1_number = [https://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/Details/5507017982 17982] }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker = rail | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|Amtrak}} | mapframe-zoom = 14 }} '''Longview station''' is a train station in Longview, Texas, United States. It is served by Amtrak and was originally built by the Texas & Pacific Railway.
The Longview station also serves as the train-bus transfer point for passengers destined to two Amtrak Thruway motorcoach routes. One route provides ''Texas Eagle'' connecting service to Nacogdoches, Houston and Galveston, Texas; the other route provides connecting nonstop service between Longview and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Opened in 1940, the red brick depot replaced an 1874 structure. Its Colonial Revival style, popular in the early 20th century, includes stylized quoins, brick cornice and grey stone trim used to highlight the coping, keystones and lintels. In its heyday, it ran several Missouri Pacific and Texas & Pacific trains a day, notably those companies' original ''Texas Eagle'' (ended, 1971), which west and south of Longview split into three different sections for different parts of Texas. Until 1963 the ''Louisiana Eagle'' went east to Shreveport and New Orleans.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Missouri Pacific Lines, Tables 4, 5 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=94 |issue=8 |date=January 1962}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Texas & Pacific Railway |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=94 |issue=8 |date=January 1962}}</ref> A successor night train and a successor day train ran on the route to New Orleans as late as 1968.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 2 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways|publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=101 |issue=1 |date=June 1968}}</ref>
In early 2013, the city broke ground on a $2.2 million project to transform the depot into a multimodal transportation center. During the renovation, workers installed new dormers and the open-air waiting room was recreated. The project was largely funded through a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Federal Highway Administration, matched by city funds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/LVW|title=Longview, Texas|publisher=Great American Stations|accessdate=20 October 2014|archive-date=20 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020191809/http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/LVW|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Trains|History|Texas}} *Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Gregg County
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==External links== {{commons category-inline|Longview (Amtrak station)}} {{Amtrak web|LVW|Longview, TX}} *[http://www.texaseagle.com/stations/LVW.htm Longview, TX – ''Texas Eagle'' (Amtrak)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612084805/http://www.texaseagle.com/stations/LVW.htm |date=2007-06-12 }} *[http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/longview.htm Longview Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)]
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