PINE COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Date Built	Current Use	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
askov		Brograde Street at Bregnedalgade Street (GPS: 46.188198, -92.781309)	C	1894	Museum	In Use	Wood
Cloverton		1/2 mile west of town on Rutabaga Road	F	????	Storage	None	Wood
Denham		South of the old ROW on Old Creamery Road, south side, about 200 feet west of Edgewood (Main) Street. (GPS: 46.362767,-92.945994)	F	????	????	None	Wood
finlayson		Front Street just south of Findland Avenue (GPS: 46.200582, -92.916082)	C	1909	Civic	Gone	Wood
Groningen (Miller Sta.)		Moved to Ironhorse Central RR Museum at 2480 Morgan Avenue, Chisago City in Washington County. (GPS:45.308772, -92.846425)	C	1896	Museum	None	Wood
hinckley		106 Old Hwy 61 (GPS: 46.015063, -92.943398)	C	1894	Museum	In Use	Wood
pine city		North side of 3rd Avenue SE (GPS: 45.827281, -92.968274)	C	194?	Business	In Use	Brick
rutledge		Jackson Street Roundhouse Museum, 193 East Pennsylvania Avenue, St. Paul (GPS: 44.962877, -93.094345)	C	1897	Museum	None	Wood
sandstone		Relocated to where?	C	1922	Residence	None	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Belden
Beroun (Cross Lake)		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1894 and measured 16'x38'. It was just north of the intersection of Pine County Road 127 and the railroad tracks. The original name for this station may have been Browns Hill Siding.
Beroun		This station replaced the one above in 1959. It was torn down in 1970.
Brook Park
Brook Park (Pokegama)		This predated the station listed above. According to the 1915 GN Valuation Reports, it was built in 1899 and measured 30'x68'.
Bruno		This was the original two-story depot.
Bruno		This station was located at 21 Minnesota Street in Sandstone (GPS:46.125546, -92.871556) where it served as a school before buring in September 2020 and then subsequently being torn down in March 2021. It was the Harvest Christian Elementary school when it burned. Prior to 1994 it was the Sandstone Youth Center. It was built in Bruno in 1913 and replaced the earlier station.
Denham
Duquette		According to the 1915 GN Valuation Reports, there was only a cinder platform and sign at this location at that time.
Finlayson		The original station here was built in 1897.
Friesland (Del Grove)		This platform may have predated the station listed below.
Friesland		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1891 and measured 26'x50'. Other sources say that the station building here was part of the old Taylors Falls station and was moved here in 1903 (when the new station was built in Taylors Falls).
Harlis
Henriette (Cornell)		This appears to be an earlier station.
Henriette		According to the 1915 GN Vaulation Records, the passenger station here was built in 1911 with the dimensions of 12'x34'. In June 1911 the station name was changed from "Cornell" to "Henriette."
Henriette (Cornell)		According to the 1915 GN Vaulation Records, the freight station here was built in 1895 with the dimensions of 14'x20'.
Hinckley		This modern station was east of downtown. It was gone by 1997.
Hinckley
Hinckley		The original station here burned in 1894 and was replaced by the station that is still standing.
Kerrick		According to the 1915 GN Valuation Reports, this station was built in 1894 and measured 17'x33'.
Kerrick		This may be the same station listed above after heavy modification.
kingsdale		This station was located on the NW corner of Kingsdale Road and Swedish Highway, about 1 mile into Wisconsin. (GPS: 46.244689,-92.259404). James Burt writes: "This was a portable depot moved from ??? to Woodboro, WI. In 1910 it was moved to Tripoli, WI. In 1944 the station was shortened and moved to Kingsdale, MN to replace the two-story Soo Station that was there. A section foreman bought it and turned it into a garage. I got the info on this from a retired Soo Line dispatcher who keeps track of the stations." As of 2014 the building had collapsed.
MArkville
Mission Creek		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1894 and measured 16'x38'.
Nickerson		According to the 1915 GN Valuation Reports, this station was built in 1895 and measured 24'x52'.
Nickerson		This is likely a later-generation station or the original station with heavy modifications.
Partridge (Askov)		This was the station before the fire of 1894. After the town was rebuilt in the early 1900s, the name was changed to Askov. The station name change on the GN became official in July 1909.
Pine City		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1894 and measured 24'x100'.
Rock Creek		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1893 and measured 24'x60'.
Rutledge (Kettle River)		The first Lake Superior & Mississippi RR station here was known as Kettle River Station before the town was founded in 1893. According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, new passenger and freight stations were built here in 1897 and measured 18'x24' and 16'x50' respectively. According to those same records, there were also three railroad-owned dweillings here: a two-story structure measuring 18'x24' and two one-story buildings measuring 12'x14' and 12'x12'.
Sandstone		An earlier station was built here in 1895.
Sandstone Junction		This station was at the junction of the St. Paul & Duluth RR and the Kettle River RR. This was in the vicinity of Grindstone Lake Road at approximately GPS: 46.116947, -92.928688 between Friesland and Gronigen.
Sturgeon Lake		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1897. The two-story section measured 20'x22' and the one-story section measured 18'x36' (the same as the Willow River station listed below).
Willow River		According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, a new station was built here in 1889. The two-story section measured 20'x22' and the one-story section measured 18'x36'.
1898 PINE COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Finlayson (St.P&D) - Residents asked the RR to build a larger station here and the NP built this in 1909. According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, the Finlayson station was built in 1897 and measured 16'x54', however that information may have been carried over from the previous depot. Gronigen (St.P&D) - According to NP Valuation Reports from 1917, this station was built in 1891 and measured 16'x46', however this information may refer to the original station here (or it may just be a mistake). The town was known as Miller, but was wiped out in the Hinkley firestorm of 1894. The name was changed to Gronigen when it was resurrected and the new station subsequently built in 1896. Sandstone (Great Northern) - This station was built in 1922 (Askov American 10-20-1921, Askov American, 5-4-1922).