(rshsdepot) Poplar Bluff, MO

[Bernie Wagenblast <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>]

Some progress in effort to save train station

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) -- An effort to save an old train station in this
southeast town is slowly making progress.
The old Union Pacific Railroad Depot in downtown Poplar Bluff has sat unused
for several years except for a room that serves as a waiting room for Amtrak
passengers.

The waiting area had been unsafe and unsightly until about a year ago, when
the Committee to Save and Restore the Poplar Bluff Historic Train Depot
began volunteering to clean and maintain it with the help of Union Pacific
employees and Amtrak.
"We're beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel," said Dennis Glaze,
chairman of the committee.

Glaze said that as soon as the committee receives a 501-3 tax designation,
Union Pacific will deed to the committee the depot, its land and the
historic steps behind the depot that lead to Main Street

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