The Choctaw Route Station is a historic former railroad station on East 3rd Street in the riverfront area of Little Rock, Arkansas . The building now houses the Clinton School of Public Service , a branch of the University of Arkansas at the Clinton Presidential Center . The station, built in 1899 for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad , is a single-story brick building with elaborate terra cotta detailing, and is one of the architecturally finest stations in the state.[ 2]
Major named passenger trains included:[ 3] [ 4]
Californian Cherokee Choctaw Rocket Memphis-Californian Southwest Express By the mid-1960s the trains had dwindled down the Memphis-Californian successor, the Memphis-Tucumcari, an overnight coach-only Memphis-Little Rock-Oklahoma City-Amarillo-Tucumcari train. This final train at the station was terminated between fall 1967 and summer 1968.[ 5] [ 6]
The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[ 1]
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^ a b "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places National Park Service . July 9, 2010.^ "NRHP nomination for Choctaw Route Station" . Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-11-07 .^ "Rock Island Lines, Tables A, B, F, K, L". Official Guide of the Railways . 89 (5). National Railway Publication Company. January 1950. ^ Rock Island Lines timetable, February 1938, Condensed Timetables http://streamlinermemories.info/RI/RI38TT.pdf
^ "Rock Island Lines, Table 3". Official Guide of the Railways . 100 (5). National Railway Publication Company. October 1967. ^ "Rock Island Lines, (Freight only)". Official Guide of the Railways . 101 (1). National Railway Publication Company. June 1968.
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