The Northern Pacific Depot in

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, United States, is a one-story wood frame passenger depot built on the

Northern Pacific Railway The Northern Pacific Railway was an important American transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the Western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest between 1864 and 1970. It was approved and chartered b ...

line in 1909 to replace an earlier smaller depot. The rail line was originally built by the

Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad is the name of two railroads in Minnesota: a freight and passenger line that operated from 1870 to 1877 and a Heritage railway, heritage railroad that has operated since 1981. Historic railroad The Lake ...

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

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, which abandoned the line in 1977. Today, the former right-of-way is part of the

Willard Munger State Trail The Willard Munger State Trail is a system of recreational trails between Hinckley and Duluth, Minnesota. The trail's three segments are the Hinckley to Duluth Segment, Alex Laveau Memorial Trail, and Matthew Lourey State Trail. Hinckley to Dulut ...

. 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. Finlayson depot lost passenger service on January 4, 1967.

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Finlayson Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Railway stations in the United States opened in 1909 National Register of Historic Places in Pine County, Minnesota 1909 establishments in Minnesota Finlayson Railway stations in the United States closed in 1967 {{Minnesota-railstation-stub