Knife River, Minnesota DM&IR Depot
Knife River, Minnesota DM&IR Depot
The former Duluth & Northern Minnesota (eventually the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range) depot at Knife River, Minnesota. The photo was taken in 2021 after the building had recently gotten a facelift and was turned ubti a museum. The first building is the passenger depot. The freight depot is the small building behind it. The tracks here are still used by the North Shore Scenic Railroad and possibly also by Canadian Pacific.
In 1898, the Duluth & Northern Minnesota railroad started out as a logging railroad for the Alger Smith Logging Company which was headquartered in Knife River. They needed a depot, so the passenger depot from east Duluth's Lester River Station (built in 1887) was loaded on two flat cars and brought to this site in Knife River where it still stands.
Below are photos of the depot in an unknown year in the early 1900's, in 1980 and in 2018.
The building now houses a museum in its waiting room, complete with ticket booth and schedule board.
Below are photos of the ticket booth and a 1942 WWII era DM&IR safety magazine cover that hangs on the wall inside the depot.
Below are photos of two of the interpretive signs outside of the depot.
