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(rshsdepot) Mobile, Ala., and Brookfield, Wis.



-From Trains.com Newsline...

Station stops: Mobile, Ala., and Brookfield, Wis.

In Mobile, Ala., the historic Gulf, Mobile & Ohio terminal, built in 1907,
is undergoing a $20 million renovation, The Associated Press reported this
week. The building will serve as a bus station and house offices, a coffee
shop and deli. The Spanish Colonial style station was designed by architect
Philip Thorton Marye, whose stations in Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, have
been demolished. The building is on the National Register of Historic
Places.

In Brookfield, Wis., the state has awarded the city $60,000 for its
restoration of a former Milwaukee Road station built in 1867, the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel reported this week. The depot is currently used by
maintenance workers for Canadian Pacific subsidiary Soo Line. They will be
relocated to a new facility as part of the restoration effort. Officials
hope the station will become a stop on a planned higher-speed passenger
network in the Midwest.

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