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This building was once an Amtrak station. The building still stands, the trains still stop here, and Amtrak has moved next door into the old REA Building which is out of sight to the right of this image.

 

Can anyone name the station?

Bonus points for naming the establishment which currently occupies this building!!!!!

 

I have my Google Earth set up to show me the location of train stations. I look for towns along the route of the train I think this station may be on and then I zoom in to look for things like is the roof the same color (in this case check), is the building roughly the same same size (again, check), and other various clues. In this case it was that cement walkway with the handrails from the parking lot to the platform about 20 feet from the building itself.

 

For the record, I looked at every station on the Crescent route from Tuscaloosa south and every station on the City of New Orleans route south of Memphis before I started working my way south from St. Louis on the Texas Eagle.

 

I should have just started with the Texas Eagle as this station looked similar to pictures that I've seen of the renovated Hope, AR station!

Great detective work, Notelvis!!  You are correct.

How do you use Google Earth??

Your turn to post.

OK -

How about Walnut Ridge, AR?

Thanks for jumpstarting the game Shanghai.

This has got to be somewhere south. It looks reasonably warm here even during the winter (note no leaves on the tree.) It also looks ridiculously flat here.

Given the 'south' part..... as well as the classic small town station design, I'm eliminating Illinois. I'm thinking Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas for this station.

Let me spend a little time with Google Earth and I might have a guess a little later this evening.

I'll post this picture of an active Amtrak Station since it has been two days since the post was correctly guessed:

 

 

amtkstn - you're on the clock sir.

 

Do you have another station photo to post?

Mount Vernon, WASHINGTON.  On the Cascades between Everett and Bellingham.

 

Thank You.

Mount Vernon, WASHINGTON.  On the Cascades between Everett and Bellingham.

How bout this one, basically a random selection from the SubwayNut's Amtrak station list:

 

I wasn't aware that there is an Amtrak Station in Mount Vernon, VA?