LYON COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
cottonwood		About 150 yards back on an access road off 4th Street. The access road is just east of Norseth Boulevard. Depot sits just east of the blue water tower and is also visible from Barstad Road (CR-32) (GPS: 44.611673, -95.668259).	C	1888	Municpal	None	Wood
Garvin		2516 110th Street (GPS: 44.21475,-95.760944).	C	1887	Storage	None	Wood
green valley		On a farm on the northeast edge of Marshall. The driveway is to the east across from the intersection of MN-23 and 269th Aveune. It is in a patch of trees in a field approximately 300 yards due east of the football and baseball fields on 23 (GPS: 44.461261,-95.751321).	C	1902	Storage	None	Wood
Marshall		North side of West Main Street, just NW of North 7th. (GPS: 44.452817, -95.795501)	P	1903	Railroad	In Use	Brick
Marshall		Located two miles west of Marshall at the SE corner of 210th Avenue and 280th Street (2109 280th Street). (GPS: 44.457023,-95.862944)	C	1888	Residence	None	Wood
volga, SD		At Wheels Across The Prairie Museum Grounds, 3297 US HWY 14, Tracy, MN.	C	1897	Museum	None	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Amiret (Saratoga)		This station was on the east side of Front Street, just north of Main Street. It was built in 1883.
Balaton		This station was built in 1879 and burned down in 1913.
Balaton		This station was on the SE side of East 2nd Street. It was built in 1915 to replace the earlier station listed above.
Burchard		The depot was on First Street between Main and Elm Streets (First Street no longer exists here). This station was a boxcar modified into a depot.
Cottonwood		The original station here.
Dudley		The depot was on Front Street (which ran east/west along the tracks on the the west side of CR-9). Although indicated on maps, this town essentially no longer exists.
Florence		The depot was on Railroad Street south of Blaine Street.
Ghent		This depot was on the west side of Chapman Street. It was built in 1881.
Green Valley		This smaller building may have served as a station in later years.
Heckman Siding		This tiny village was on the east side of Marshall Lake in Section 25 of Marshall Township. In the early 1900s it featured a post office, elevator and railroad station and not much else.
Lynd		This station was on the southern corner of Railroad Street and 4th Street. It was between the NW side of the present-day BNSF tracks and the SE side of Railroad Street (now East Railroad Street), immediately to the Southwest of what is now called 4th Street (Lyon County Road 5), and which had no name shown on the Lynd map in the 1902 Lyon County plat book.
marshall		This station was on what is now West Marvin Schwan Memorial Drive at South 1st Street. It was built in 1885.
Minneota		Built in 1889, this station was on the SE side of Jefferson Street between East 1st and Industrial Way.
Russell		This station, built in 1893, was on the SW side of 1st Street, on the south side of the tracks and on the opposite side of the tracks from Front Street; on the West side of where 1st Street (Lyon County Road 31) now crosses the tracks from the south.
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Taunton		This station was at the end of Main Street, SW of 1st Street. It was built in 1898. The tracks were removed in the mid-1980s.
Tracy		The passenger station was on the west side of 4th Street at GPS: 44.232285, -95.622645. The passenger station was built in 1897. To the NW there was a hotel, machine shop and roundhouse for the RR.
Tracy		The first freight station was built in 1879 and probably served as the first passenger station.It was on the east side of 4th Street at GPS:
Tracy		A later-generation freight station was on South Street just west of 5th Street at GPS: 44.233177, -95.623599.
1898 LYON COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Cottonwood (GN) - This station's original location was on the east side of Barstad Road between Front and Main Streets. Bought by the city and used by the water department for storage. Garvin (C&NW) - This station's original location was on 1st Street at the northern end of Sherman Street (now CR-14) next to the elevator. The station is now (2011) in bad condition on a farm outside of town. Green Valley (GN) - This station's original location in Green Valley was south of CR-8, on the east side of the tracks. Specifically, the station was on the East side of the present-day BNSF tracks, approximately 250 feet south of present-day County Road 8, and approximately 600 feet West of present-day County Road 67. The depot was near the end of what was originally called Robinson Street. According to the 1902 Lyon County plat book (which shows the depot), old Robinson Street ran perpendicular to the GN tracks and to present-day County Road 67. The eastern portion of old Robinson Street is now called Caron Street, and ends prior to reaching the site of the old depot. There is a NEW Robinson Street which runs roughly parallel to, and in between the BNSF tracks and County Road 67. That road was just one block long in 1902, and carried only the name “Street” on the map in the 1902 Lyon County platbook. --Note by Lyon County Historical Society. Marshall (GN) - The original Marshall GN depot was a 24 x 74 built in 1888. It was a one-story, but the walls were very high, so conversion into a 1 and a 1/2 story house makes sense. The roof line was bi-level with the cross gables over the office area being a bit higher than the waiting room area, and the roof line over the freight room was a bit lower still. It appears that the freight room portion was removed from the building when it was moved. The early depot at Pipestone was a twin to the one at Marshall as were the original depots at Wadena, Park Rapids and Hallock. Volga (C&NW) - This station's original location was Volga, South Dakota.