Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum

The depot at 800 North Washington Avenue opened on October 20, 1912, a Mission Revival building meant to serve passengers and to house the Texas and Pacific Railway's eastern district headquarters. It is the only surviving structure of the company's Marshall shops complex, which once had 57 buildings. It served soldiers in both world wars and once held telegraph and immigration offices.

The building nearly went. Amtrak began serving Marshall on March 13, 1974, but in 1988 Union Pacific, the owner, applied to demolish the depot. The community intervened and spent the 1990s saving it, and the restored depot returned to use as the local train station. The Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum now occupies much of it. Texas and Pacific No. 400, a 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive, was moved to the grounds in 2008.

Inside, expect early passenger-train memorabilia, exhibits on the manufacturing done in the railroad shops, and hands-on displays including a model train and a pull whistle. Visitors reach the museum through a tunnel below the Amtrak line. It is open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and the Texas Eagle still stops daily, with the ticket office staffed in the early morning and evening.