GOODHUE COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
CANNON FALLS		Corner of 2nd and Water Streets	C	????	Vacant	Gone	Wood
GOODHUE		Third Ave. between Broadway and MN58	C	1883	Storage	Gone	Wood
PINE ISLAND		????	C	1878	Church	None	Wood
RED WING		726 W. Main Street	P	1906	Business	Gone	Brick
RED WING		420 Levee Street	P	1904	Mixed	In Use	Brick
WANAMINGO		At Holden Lutheran Church, 6949 County 30 Boulevard, Kenyon	C	????	Civic	None	Wood
zumbrota		220th Street, Hastings, MN	C	1889	Museum	None	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Bakko		Bakko was in the SW corner of Section 14, Kenyon Township.
belle creek		This station was on the southeast side of main street. The depot sat between the main line and a siding track. This town exists in name only. It was located on the south bank of the Canon River, just to the southeast of Welch. It was alternately referred to as Welch Station (with the town of Welch on the north side of the river just to the NW). This location is currently off 264th Street Path about 300 years north of the junction with County Road 7. The location of this town is misidentified on the Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer as being in Belle Creek Township as the Canon River does not run through that township.
Cannon Junction
Cascade
Central point
Clay Bank
dennison		This station was just south of CR 31/CR 9. The station was on the east side of the tracks.
Eggleston
forest mills		This station was just south of the race for the flour mill. It sat just to the NW of the butter tub factory, north of what used to be Main Street. This area is unidentifiable now and located on private property (part of which appears to be a junkyard). The depot also housed the post office from 1888-1898. The post office was closed in 1898. The tracks were removed in 1955 and the depot was gone sometime before that.
frontenac Station		This station sat in the middle of the block formed by Caledonia (on the west), Scandinavia (on the east), Columbia (on the north), and Sclavonia (on the south) Streets.
hay creek		This railroad ran from Red Wing Junction to Zumbrota with a spur from Claybank to the nearby clay pits. It's main purpose was to serve the pottery and stoneware factories in Red Wing. The tracks were removed here in 1937. It was first chartered as the Red Wing & Iowa Rwy. in 1881, renamed the DRW&S in 1886, and was sold to the Wisconsin, Minnesota & Pacific in 1901. The line finally ended up as part of the Chicago Great Western.
kenyon		This station was just north of Main Street on the west side of the tracks.
Kenyon
Lena		This depot was on the SW corner of CR 55 and MN 60 in Pine Island Township. There was also a warehouse next to the station.
Red Wing		The first CM&St.P station was along the tracks between Dakota and Broad Streets (just SW of where the current station is located).
Skyburg (Skyberg)		Slyberg was on the southern border of Section 25, Kenyon Township.
stanton		This station was just north of MN 19. Also in this vicinity were two elevators, a warehouse, a and a store/post office. Just to the NW of the station was the Stanton Creamery Cheese Factory.
Welch		This station was just south of the intersection of CR 7 and Welch Trail.
zumbrota		This depot was in the park with the covered bridge and was in poor condition, but as of Nov. 2008 it was moved or demolished. The original station here was for the 3'0" narrow-gauge Minnesota Midland which was built in 1873, sold to the CM&St.P in 1883, converted to standard gauge in 1903, and was removed in 1952.
Zumbrota		This line eventually became part of the Chicago Great Western Railroad (see listing for Hay Creek above).
Zumbrota		This railroad become part of the Chicago & North Western in 1881 and the line was removed in 1933.
1898 GOODHUE COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Pine Island (CGW) - This station has been relocated. Its original location was on Park Avenue, which would be somewhere near the intersection of 5th Street and 3rd Avenue today as the town stripped most of its street names for the boring numbered system. Red Wing (MN Central) - Station was built by the predecessor railroad Minnesota Central which later became part of the CGW. The last train on the line was in 1976. The building formerly housed a Hardees restaurant and now houses a Caribou Coffee. Red Wing (CMSt.P&P) - This station now houses the Red Wing Visitor's And Convention Bureau and the Red Wing Arts Association And Gallery. Zumbrota (CGW) - This station is now located at Little Log House Pioneer Village near Hastings, MN.