Mineola (Amtrak station)

Mineola (Amtrak station)
This article is about a former Texas & Pacific and current Amtrak railroad station in Texas. For the Long Island Railroad station in Nassau County, New York, see Mineola (LIRR station).
Mineola
Station statistics
Address 115 East Front Street
Mineola, TX 75773
Coordinates 32°39′43″N 95°29′21″W / 32.66197°N 95.4891°W / 32.66197; -95.4891Coordinates: 32°39′43″N 95°29′21″W / 32.66197°N 95.4891°W / 32.66197; -95.4891
Lines
  Texas Eagle
Other information
Opened 1906
Rebuilt 2006
Code MIN
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 6,568[1] increase 33%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station
Texas Eagle
toward Chicago

The Mineola Amtrak station is a train station in Mineola, Texas, United States served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station was originally built in 1906 by the Texas and Pacific Railway and also used by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. According to Willie Brown, who grew up in Mineola, the station was built as the result of his persistent lobbying of President Bill Clinton. Responding to an Amtrak report that a survey did not reveal anyone wanting to get off in Mineola, Brown reportedly told Clinton: "The reason to stop in Mineola is not to let anybody off. It's to let the people on. Look at me! I left!"[2] Amtrak's own press release on the station, however, credits "Mineola community leaders" with the successful effort.[3]

Of the 19 Texas stations served by Amtrak, Mineola was the 11th-busiest in FY2010, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 18 passengers daily.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/TEXAS10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-1-6. 
  2. ^ Brown, Willie, Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), p. 255.
  3. ^ National Railroad Passenger Corporation, "Texas 'Railroad Town' Completes Restoration of Historic Depot," News Release, June 8, 2006.
  4. ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2010, State of Texas" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2010. http://www.amtrak.com/pdf/factsheets/TEXAS10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-1-6. 

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