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| EXISTING STATIONS | ||||||||
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| Station Name |
Original Railroad | Current Location |
Type | Date Built |
Current Use |
Track Status |
Building Material |
More Info |
| Amboy |
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Memorial Park about 1 mi. west of St. James (Watonwan County), right side of road by campground. | C | 1894 | Museum | None | Wood |
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huntley (Fairibault Co.) |
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110 West Maine Street in Amboy (Blue Earth County). | C | 1879 | Storage | None | Wood |
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| lake crystal |
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12346 Shag Road (Township Road 110), SE of New Ulm. (GPS: 44.274639, -94.430028) |
C | ???? | Storage | None | Wood | |
| Mankato |
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South Riverfront Drive, SW of Main Street (GPS: 44.167493, -94.004394) |
C | 1896 | Business | In Use | Brick | |
| Mapleton |
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CR 7, two miles south of town | C | ???? | Farm Use | None | Wood | |
| Minneopa |
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21099 547th Avenue. Northeast corner of Gadwall and
547th at the Minneopa State Park Maintenance yard. (GPS: 44.152159,-94.08921) |
C | ???? | Civic | None | Wood |
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| Rapidan |
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Main Street | C | 1906 | Museum | Gone | Wood | |
| STATIONS OF THE PAST | ||||||||
| Station Name |
Original Railroad |
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| benning station |
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Four different lines crossed here. Not sure which had stations though. | ||||||
| benning station |
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| benning station |
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| benning station |
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| cambria |
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This station was on the SE side of Maple Street (CR 6). It was wood with a stone foundation and was built in 1900.It was torn down and replaced with a portable depot which was then later removed to a different site. | ||||||
| bradley Station |
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Not sure if there was one station here or two as the tracks ran next to each other. There was a train wreck on the CSt.PM&O line near here on April 18, 1875. | ||||||
| eagle lake |
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This station was just west of 3rd Street. It was built in 1885. | ||||||
| Garden City |
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This station was on the north side of CR 13 (Red River Ridge Road, formerly Washington Street). This frame station was built in 1879. | ||||||
| Good Thunder |
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This depot was on the north side of Main Street just west of Front Street. | ||||||
| judson |
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The depot was at the corner of Railroad and Broad Streets and was built in 1900. | ||||||
| lake crystal |
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There was
also a separate freight station here. The passenger station was built in
1889. Blane Anderson writes: The Lake Crystal Depot was constructed on the corner of Humphrey & Main Street, where Grace Thrift Store is now. The depot, along with the railroad, was moved to the south shore of Lily Lake in 1904. Where it was placed at the corner of Dean and Lilly Street (which no longer intersect), and is now directly north of the Holy Family Catholic Church, across Highway 60 along the railroad. At Around 1970, it was sold to Elmer Rolloff Jr. of New Ulm. The east end of the station was raised, and the rest of the depot was moved to New Ulm where it resides today (as of 2024 still owned by the Rolloff family). |
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| madison lake |
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This station was on the north side of Spruce Avenue (formerly called Race Street) between 5th and 6th Streets. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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The first W&St.P (C&NW) passenger and freight stations were on the SW side of East Spring Street at GPS: 44.171450, -94.000044. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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The second C&NW passenger/freight station was at the end of Mulberry Street at GPS: 44.168765, -94.002479. They were connected and made of brick. These stations are shown on the 1889 and 1894 Sanborn maps. After the union station was built, this served as the freight station. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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The original wood frame station was at the NW end of East Hickory Street at GPS: 44.166615, -94.006503 with a large brick freighthouse to the south. These station were shown on the 1884-1894 Sanborn maps. | ||||||
| mankato |
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This brick passenger station was northwest of Front Street between Jackson and Hickory Streets at GPS: 44.165666, -94.006983. The railroads has separate freight stations on each side of the passenger station with the CGW freight station to the SW (at GPS: 44.165358, -94.007467) and the CM&St.P freight station to the NE (at GPS: 44.166411, -94.006125). On the 1909 Sanborn map the CGW freight station is labeled as a Dan Patch frieght station. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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Freight station. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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The first Omaha passenger station in Makato was on the south corner of North 4th and East Washington Streets at GPS: 44.168172, -93.996051. It had a long platform that ran along 4th Street to the SW. It is shown on the 1884 Sanborn map. | ||||||
| mankato |
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The second Omaha passenger station was a 2-story wood frame station on North 4th Street just SW of Washington Street at GPS: 44.168071, -93.996174 (just a bit SW of where the original station was). It is shown on the 1889 and 1894 Sanborn maps. Although it was out of service, it was still shown on the 1900 Sanborn map, but gone by 1908. | ||||||
| mankato |
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The original freight station was on the east corner of North 4th Street and East Washington Street at GPS: 44.168368, -93.995887. This station was torn down or moved when the new union station was built around 1896. | ||||||
| mankato |
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There was a freight station on the northwest side of Pike Street. Today this location is near the river north of South Riverfront Drive halfway between Cherry and Hickory Streets. A later brick freight station was built in 1910. | ||||||
| Mankato |
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This original Minneapolis & St. Louis RR (later purchased by the CGW) station was on the west corner of West Rock Street and Maple Street at GPS: 44.174287, -94.000151. It is shown on the 1889-1900 Sanborn maps. The tracks ended just SW of the station. | ||||||
| mapleton |
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This station was on the north side of Main Street at 3rd Street. Is this the same station that is still standing? | ||||||
| minneopa |
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This station was located at Minneopa State Park due north of the falls on what used to be called Depot Street. It was built around 1870 and the small village of Minneopa was north of the depot with the falls and picnic grounds to the south. | ||||||
| minneopa |
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This later station was built in 1906. | ||||||
| pemberton |
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This depot was located on Railway Street (MN 83) between Main Street and 1st Avenue (where 2nd Ave used to intersect Railway St.). A station was originally slated to be built one mile southwest at the townsite of Cream, but when the land was purchased at Pemberton, that spelled the end for the town of Cream (which had a boxcar for a depot when the RR came through in 1907). | ||||||
| Perth |
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| st. clair |
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This station was at the bend in Railroad Street. | ||||||
| stone station |
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There was a short spur here that went to a quarry to the NW. The station here was known as Quarry until 1902. | ||||||
| vernon center |
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This station was on the south side of Main Street on the west side of the tracks. It was built in 1879. | ||||||
| 1898 BLUE EARTH COUNTY RAILROAD MAP | ||||||||
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Notes About Existing Stations... Amboy (CSt.PM&O) - The original location of this station in Amboy was at the SW corner of 1st and Maine Streets. Huntley (CM&St.P) - Moved from original location to 31710 170th Street, then to Amboy, MN. The depot was given to the Amboy Area Community Club free of charge with the condition that it be restored. The project was started in 2011 and the station has now (2013) been restored in Amboy. Minneopa (C&NW) - Minneopa, a ghost town just west of Mankato and now the site of Minneopa State Park. Town folded early but the RR kept the station there for a while to serve excursions to Minneopa Falls. The state park started about 1905 and at sometime later the state bought the station, moved it north across the tracks to serve as the Park Superintendents house. Now it is the Maintenance office for the Park. |
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