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Onamia, Minnesota Soo Line Depot
Onamia, Minnesota Soo Line Depot
Onamia, Minnesota Soo Line (Mpls, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) Depot, built in 1908 at the southwest end of Lake Mille Lacs. It was on the Soo Brooten Line, which was a major freight route from west central Minnesota to the harbor at Duluth. Other than that, information about this depot has been hard to find.
According to Steve Glischinski in his book,"Minnesota Railroads", all Soo Line passenger service ended in 1967. The last freight train passed through Onamia in 1990. The depot was in a sad state of disrepair by that time. The tracks here are long gone, now, having been removed in the mid-1990s.
Groups of locals eventually had the depot restored, and in 2009 it was opened as the Onamia Depot Library.
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