Finlayson station

The Northern Pacific Depot in Finlayson, Minnesota, United States, is a one-story wood frame passenger depot built on the Northern Pacific Railway line in 1909 to replace an earlier smaller depot. The rail line was originally built by the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in 1870. Its successor, the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad first located a depot in Finlayson in the mid 1880s. The line was acquired by the Northern Pacific Railway in 1900. In 1970, the line became part of Burlington Northern, which abandoned the line in 1977. Today, the former right-of-way is part of the Willard Munger State Trail.

Northern Pacific Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Finlayson Depot (2008)
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Location	Front St. at Finland Ave., Finlayson, Minnesota
Coordinates	46°12′02″N 92°54′58″W
Built	1909
NRHP reference No.	80002107
Added to NRHP	August 18, 1980

The interior of the depot consists of a freight room at the southern end, the office at the center, and the waiting room at the northern end. The office's trackside bay window is flanked by a wide freight door to the south and a single-leafed five paneled passenger entrance to the north.^[1]

Finlayson depot lost passenger service on January 4, 1967.^[2]

References

1. Haidet, Mark (March 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Northern Pacific Combination Depot". National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
2. "NP Twin Cities - Duluth Passenger Trains Discontinued". Star Tribune. January 3, 1967. Retrieved October 12, 2022.

Preceding station	Northern Pacific Railway			Following station
Groningen toward Minneapolis		Minneapolis – Duluth		Rutledge toward Duluth