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{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal
| nrhp_type    =
| image        = Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad station.jpg
| caption      = The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal in 2008.
| location     = 110 Beauregard St, [[Mobile, Alabama]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|30|42|1|N|88|2|44|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = USA Alabama Mobile#Alabama#USA
| area         =
| built        = 1907
| architect    = Marye, P. Thornton
| architecture = Mission/Spanish Revival
| added        = August 15, 1975
| refnum       = 75000323
<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Passenger Terminal''' is a historic [[train station]] in [[Mobile, Alabama]], United States.  Architect [[P. Thornton Marye]] designed the [[Mission Revival Style architecture|Mission Revival]] style terminal for the [[Mobile and Ohio Railroad]].  It was completed in 1907 at a total cost of $575,000.  The Mobile and Ohio merged with the [[Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad]] in 1940 to form the [[Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad]].
==Trains in final years==
Major trains served:
*[[Gulf, Mobile & Ohio]]:
**''[[Gulf Coast Rebel]]'': [[St. Louis, Missouri]]&ndash;Mobile
*[[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]]:
**''Goldenrod'': [[Birmingham, Alabama]]&ndash;Mobile
==Demise==
The last GM&O passenger trains into Mobile terminal station were the Gulf Coast Rebels, which made their last runs on October 14, 1958.  Louisville & Nashville passenger service in Mobile called at a separate L&N station located about 1 mile distant.  Passenger service in the Amtrak era continued at the former L&N passenger station [[Mobile station (Amtrak)|Mobile station]]. GM&O Terminal Station continued to serve as railroad offices.<ref name="preserve">{{cite web |url=http://preservationscoreboard.uwa.edu/win/mobileohio.htm |title=Wins: The Old Gulf Mobile and Ohio Building |access-date=2008-07-29 |work=Alabama's Preservation Scorecard |publisher=Alabama Historical Commission |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105856/http://preservationscoreboard.uwa.edu/win/mobileohio.htm |archive-date=2011-07-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on August 15, 1975.<ref name="nris"/> It had suffered neglect, extensive interior alteration, and partial removal of the train shed by this time. The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad vacated the old terminal building in 1986 and for fifteen years it suffered from [[Demolition by neglect|demolition-by-neglect]]. The [[Alabama Historical Commission]] and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of their "Places in Peril" in 1996.<ref name="preserve"/> In 2001 the [[Mobile, Alabama|City of Mobile]] and a private company invested more than $18 million to restore the local landmark with the developer taking advantage of the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive program. Today the building houses private offices and the city's [[The Wave Transit System]].<ref name="preserve"/> The renovated facility was extensively damaged by flooding during [[Hurricane Katrina]].
==See also==
*[[Mobile station (Amtrak)]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{NRHP in Mobile, Alabama}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in Ohio}}
{{Mobile attractions}}
{{Adjacent stations|system=Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad|line1=Main|right1=Semmers|line2=Dyersburg-Mobile|left2=Brichard|system3=Southern Railway|line3=Mobile-Birmingham|right3=Chickasaw}}
[[Category:Former Mobile and Ohio Railroad stations|Mobile]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Mobile, Alabama]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Mobile, Alabama]]
[[Category:Transportation in Mobile, Alabama]]
[[Category:Former railway stations in Alabama]]
[[Category:Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama]]
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1907]]
[[Category:Spanish Revival architecture in Alabama]]
[[Category:Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Alabama]]
[[Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Mobile County, Alabama]]
[[Category:Repurposed railway stations in the United States]]