Poinciana station
In the mid 1970s, the site was planned as the southern terminus for Amtrak's inaugural auto ferry service called "AutoTrak" connecting Florida to Indianapolis Union Station, in competition with the Auto-Train Corporation's "Auto-Train" service. Amtrak initially built a complex with a 1,600 square foot modular building, a parking lot and two spur-lines with eventual plans for a 7,000 square foot facility. The initial complex opened on September 16, 1974, with the simultaneous arrival of the "Floridian" and the "Champion" trains. It was envisioned to be the official stop for tourists bound for Walt Disney World. The "AutoTrak" service never came to life, however, and the station was used for just over a year as a stop for the "Champion" and the "Floridian" until December 12, 1975, when those trains began stopping at Kissimmee instead. Sometime in the 1980s, the station building was demolished, the spur-lines were removed and the parking lot along with the access road into the site were abandoned and eventually overgrew with vegetation over the years. The site sat vacant until construction of the Poinciana SunRail station began in early 2016.
History
Poinciana station is a train station in the community of Poinciana, Florida. It is the southern terminus of SunRail, the commuter rail service of Greater Orlando. The site was briefly used by Amtrak from 1974 to 1975.