Mattoon station

39°28′58″N 88°22′34″W / 39.4829°N 88.3760°W / 39.4829; -88.3760Line(s)CN Champaign SubdivisionPlatforms1 side platform, 1 island platformTracks2Connections Coles County ZiplineOther informationStatusRegular stop (Illini/Saluki)
Flag stop (City of New Orleans)Station codeAmtrak: MATHistoryOpened1855 (1855)^[1]Rebuilt1860
March 1917–January 21, 1918^[2][3]Key datesDecember 1977Station agent eliminated^[1]PassengersFY 202327,691^[4] (Amtrak) Services

Preceding station	Amtrak			Following station
Effingham toward New Orleans		City of New Orleans		Champaign–Urbana toward Chicago
Effingham toward Carbondale		Illini and Saluki

Former services
Preceding station Illinois Central Railroad Following station Aetna toward New Orleans Main Line Dorans toward Chicago Coles toward Peoria Peoria – Evansville Newby toward Evansville

Built1918NRHP reference No.02000098Added to NRHPMarch 1, 2002

Mattoon station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Mattoon, Illinois, United States. The station is a flag stop on the City of New Orleans route, served only when passengers have tickets to and from the station. It is a regular stop for the Illini and Saluki.

The Mattoon station is housed in the former Illinois Central Railroad Depot. The depot was completed in 1918 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[5] At its height, the building housed a power plant, mail room, luggage room, and restaurant, in addition to the main hall where passengers waited to board trains. As many as ten trains a day departed the depot in the 1950s.^[6]

During 2010, a $3 million restoration project, paid for from a mix of private, state, and federal funding, was undertaken, replacing paint, flooring, and other interior fixtures.^[7]

There are no Amtrak employees at the station; the doors unlock and lock automatically before and after the arrival and departure of trains.^{[citation needed]} The station currently serves as a stop for the Illini, Saluki, and City of New Orleans passenger trains ^[8] The tracks themselves, formerly part of the Illinois Central Railroad, are now owned by the Canadian National Railway (CN).^[9] Freight trains run by CN pass through frequently.^{[citation needed]}

Transit service to the depot from Mattoon and Charleston is provided by Dial-A-Ride Rural Public Transportation, which provides deviated fixed-route and demand-response service.

Media related to Mattoon station at Wikimedia Commons

• Mattoon, IL – Amtrak
• Mattoon, IL – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak)
• Pictures of the Mattoon station from projectdepot.org.
• Mattoon Amtrak Station (USA Rail Guide -- Train Web)
• National Register nomination