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Terminal Station (Chattanooga)
Terminal Station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a former railroad station, and now hotel, which was once owned and operated by the Southern Railway, and is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The station is currently operated under the name The Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel and is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
==History==
The station was opened in 1909 and was the largest station in Chattanooga's history. The Terminal Station was the first train station in the south to help open a pathway to connect the north from the south, mostly to connect the city of Cincinnati, to Chattanooga. The original Chattanooga Union Station, built in 1858, (demolished in 1973) and a second station, built in 1882, were too small to handle the rapid expansion in the railroad network serving Chattanooga.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chattanooga, Tennessee: Train Town - Reading 3 )〕 Chattanooga was becoming a main port and hub for supplies and people to come through, so it was decided that a station should be built to be bigger than ever intended. The construction on the second station, or Terminal Station, began in 1906 at the cost of $1.5 million dollars. Terminal Station was initially envisioned to be a train station that would be delivered supplies and small packages, and the it was decided to also be a passenger train. The Terminal Train Station eventually started to serve, on average, fifty passenger per day, and even greeted presidents such as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. However, this does not include the traffic that was coming in due to the non-passenger trains.
American railroad passenger traffic declined after World War II, and predominately even more so in the 1950s and 1960s, due to competition from better cars and interstate systems, along with airplanes becoming a more popular way to travel and send things. Packages and land shipping became easier to do and the train track locations became outdated. Terminal Station hosted its last passenger train to visit and serve the station, the ''Birmingham Special'', from New York City to Birmingham, and this train left Terminal Station in 1970, which is the same year the doors of Terminal Station finally closed to the public. In the years before, as the passenger traffic did decline, most of the platforms started to become storage before the station eventually got changed into a hotel and one by one, each track ultimately became obsolete.
On April, 1973, after near absolute destruction, Terminal Station was reopened by a group of business men, who were inspired by the "Chattanooga Choo Choo" song and its ever-coming popularity. They renamed Terminal Station to "Chattanooga Choo Choo Hilton and Entertainment Complex". This was accomplished by investing over four million dollars in the refurbishing and updating of Terminal Station and turning it into a hotel. In the year 1989, another group made up of investors and business men decided to invest another four million dollars to refurbish and renovate the hotel and to bring in and hire new management and staff. This updating and modernizing in 1989 also brought about a new name, The Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel.〔
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