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The station in Longview occupies a portion of the old Missouri Pacific station and office building.  It is nothing to write home about, but it is clean, or at least it was the last time I looked at it, which was about a year ago.The Longview Station is on the wrong side of the tracks, but it is not in a bad area of town. The downtown area of Longview is immediately across the tracks.  Like the downtown areas of many of Texas' smaller communities, it has seen better days.  With the exception of the banks and a few die hard business operators, most of the merchants fled downtown for the mall or strip shopping centers on the outskirts of town.    The southbound train arrives there at 9:00 a.m., whilst the northbound train is due at 6:15 p.m.  However, as I mentioned, the Eagle is not noted for its on-time running.  Longview is the transfer point for passengers going to or from Shreveport, Nacogdoches, Houston, or Galveston on the Thruway connection.Longview has limited public transit.  The buses run about five or six fixed routes in Longview.  You can learn more about it by typing Longview Public Transportation into Google or your search engine of choice.  If you plan to visit friends or family in the Longview area, the best bet is to have someone meet you at the train.  If you just want to visit East Texas, you will need to rent a car.  As best I can remember, the rental car agency is at the airport.  You would be best advised to rent the car in advance and see if the rental car agency will pick you up at the train station.  Amtrak usually has a rental car partner, so I would see if they have an agency in Longview.If you plan to spend some time in Longview, the best restaurant in town is Johnny Cace's.  It may be the best inland seafood restaurant that I have eaten in.  And I have eaten in a bunch of restaurants.  I spent a lot of time in east Texas.  My company had a power plant and mining operation in Beckville, Texas, which is about 30 miles south of Longview.  When we were working at Beckville, we stayed in Longview because it had the only decent accommodations in the area at the time.
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