NP station

The former NP depot at Staples is still used by Amtrak. Is that some BN green lingering on the upstairs window frames?

I believe that low building in front of the grain elevator is the former NP depot in Rosalia. The Spokane, Spangle & Palouse, an Omaha Track subsidiary, is operating this line now.

The nicely preserved former NP depot in Ritzville is now a museum.

Yakima, Washington, former NP depot, an Amtrak stop at the time

The northwest and northeast walls of the magnificent Union Depot at Duluth, MN on 24 Jun. '16. Built by the SP&D, NP, DSS&A, D&IR, WC, and D&W. Designed in the French Norman style by Peabody & Sterns, it was completed in 1892 at a cost of $615,000. Passenger service ended in '69. It was purchased from the BN ca. '70. Since '73 it has been home to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, the St. Louis Co. Historic Society, and several arts organizations. Regular passenger service, in the form of Amtrak, returned from '74 or '77 until 7 Apr. '85. Passenger service again returned in '90 when the North Shore Scenic Railroad began offering excursions.

The northwest and southwest walls of the magnificent Union Depot at Duluth, MN on 24 Jun. '16. Built by the SP&D, NP, DSS&A, D&IR, WC, and D&W. Designed in the French Norman style by Peabody & Sterns, it was completed in 1892 at a cost of $615,000. Passenger service ended in '69. It was purchased from the BN ca. '70. Since '73 it has been home to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, the St. Louis Co. Historic Society, and several arts organizations. Regular passenger service, in the form of Amtrak, returned from '74 or '77 until 7 Apr. '85. Passenger service again returned in '90 when the North Shore Scenic Railroad began offering excursions.

The former NP depot in Butte now houses a bar/restaurant.

This former Northern Pacific depot is now a museum.

Sandpoint's Amtrak station, 1984

The former NP depot still stands in the tiny eastern Washington town of Sprague.

The Livingston, Montana Northern Pacific Station is in great condition and features a restaurant, gift shop and museum telling the story of the Northern Pacific in Livingston. Livingston was the stopping point for visitors to Yellowstone National Park through the northern entrance at Gardiner, Montana about 54 miles south of Livingston.

The Livingston, Montana Northern Pacific Station is in great condition and features a restaurant, gift shop and museum telling the story of the Northern Pacific in Livingston. Livingston was the stopping point for visitors to Yellowstone National Park through the northern entrance at Gardiner, Montana about 54 miles south of Livingston.

Used by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, CB&Q, and CNW. At its peak it saw around 140 trains a day. This was demolished in the 1980s. The St Paul MN depot looks like this and was saved and will re open to Amtrak in Dec 2012.

NP freight office, looking east from trackside

NP freight office and depot, looking north east from trackside

NP freight office, looking south east from trackside

NP depot, looking north east from trackside; Ilana Brown's hometown depot!

NP depot, interior, looking east from trackside; Ilana Brown's hometown depot!

NP depot, operator's bay, looking south from trackside

NP depot, looking south east from trackside, Ilana Brown's hometown depot!

NP depot looking south east from trackside, Ilana Brown's hometown depot!

NP depot, looking south east from track side

Amazingly the entire Skally line is intact in WBL itself, ending up in Hugo to the north and Maplewood to the south. Rest of the route in the eastern TC metro is without rails and now largely trails. Here, though, it is easy to imagine the glory days when not only NP but Milwaukee and C&NW trains graced these rails going to and from the Twin Ports.

Now in the midst of eastern Twin City suburbia, the former Northern Pacific/Burlington Northern station in White Bear Lake is still extant as a museum today. Trains even still pass by in the form of locals run by the Minnesota Commercial railway which leases the former NP "Skally" line in the foreground from the BNSF.

Passing the restored ex-NP depot. Date is approximate.

The NP had some nice depots.

It's a DARK day in EGF MN; this is the NP station in town, a simple 2-story brick affair. The NP had a yard and roundhouse nearby as well.

NP depot at Wadena, MN

The lawn service for the MRL (former NP) station at Bozeman Montana in the summer of '90.

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Clean and being used.

Sitting next to BNSF office and very neglected

The former Northern Pacific depot in Aitkin is now a museum operated by the Aitkin County Historical Society. The train racing by the in the background is the thrice weekly Brainerd Local.

The old NP Depot on the elevated tracks above downtown spokane