T&P Depot
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Texas & Pacific Depot or T&P Depot is the only surviving structure of the T&P shops complex in Marshall, Texas, which originally consisted of fifty-seven buildings spanning sixty-six acres. The Depot, located in the Ginocchio National Historic District, was built in 1912 to house the local railroad station and the headquarters of Texas & Pacific Railroad's eastern district. The building welcomed soldiers in both World War I and World War II, and at its height housed telegraph and immigration offices. In the 1970s a series of events lead to the Depot being abandoned, although Amtrak service began to the grounds in 1974. In 1988 Union Pacific, which now owned the property, filed for a permit to demolish the building. The community intervened and throughout the 1990s worked to save the Depot and the building was restored and resumed service as the local train station; however, much of the building houses the Texas & Pacific Railway Museum.
