Clinton station (Minnesota)

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot in Clinton, Minnesota, United States, is a historic railway station.

[citation needed] The Fargo and Southern railroad company built a loading platform in 1883 two miles south of Clinton.

While Mr. Pratt was depot agent, Frank Petrick became interested in the work and learned the Morse code and operation of the telegraph from him.

Mr. Petrick started working as depot agent in 1901 and continued, except during the year 1908, until he retired in 1945. Business, especially freight, increased to such an extent that Frank's wife, Alice Condit Petrick, was hired as depot assistant from 1909 to 1934.

The 1904 Platt book shows the railroad depot to be located north of Main Street, and directly west of the crown elevator.

By 1980 the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad was bankrupt and the survival of the line depended on heavy subsidization.