Going by Currie Minn. yesterday on my way to Storden. A great little display titled "end of the line train museum". Has a short hand powered turntable, and a Georgia Northern 4-6-0 on display. Nice little park with buildings which are well kept.
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there is also a great model railroad in the depot, and old 1880 restored narrow gauge steamer in the engine shed and a beautifully restored m&St.l caboose beside tons of railroad memoriblia. I spent 2 years building the layout. It is worth your time to take a guided tour. It is open from memorial day to labor day.
There is also a very nice restored grw caboose also. a restored brookville 0-4-0 switcher. There is a very nice tour of the depot, restored engine house full of railroad memoribila, a picknick shelter built right where and like the coal bunkeer. A water tower that was on the northwester rr at Walnut Grove and was donated to currie park A fully restored section house from Comfrey,MN a restored country school,and a newly built build like the courthouse when currie was the county seat.
The tour is about 1 and 1/2 hour long and you will see stuff from the turn of the century.
Where is Currie or Storden? I've lived in Minnesota my entire life, and I've never heard of either. Even my road atlas doesn't show either city.
Currie is next to Lake Shetek St. Park in SW Minn. About 30 miles south of Marshall. Storden is a few miles east of Currie. I've never heard of a train museum over there either, next family vacation to SD we'll have to make a stop and check it out.
It's north of Worthington, MN, not too far from Slayton. I've been there a number of times, most recently at night. It's about 1 & half hours from Sioux Falls.
Kent in SD
It is on highway 30 in southwest minnesota. Look up slayton,mn and then go north on us highway 59 north until you get to the highwayk 30 junction and go east for about 5 miles to currie. take a left on the main street and got through town and you will see the park on the right side.
If you are in marshall, mn the home of schwans ice cream take highway 59 south and turn east on highway 30.
Yes, I would like to get back when the displays are open. Does anyone know what rail line ran into Currie and was it the "end of the line"? Nice farmland in SW Minn.
According to my 1910 Official Guide (Reprint) Currie was at the end of a 39-mile Chicago & North Western branchline from Bingham Lake, 143 miles west of Minneapolis, which served stations at Delft, Jeffers, Storden (mile 21), Westbrook and Dorvray. There was one round trip daily, departing Currie at 7AM, arriving Bingham at 10, Departing at 3:10 PM and arriving back at Currie at 5:35. These made connections with Nos 3 and 6 between Minneapolis and Omaha, with thru cars to Kansas City.
Anything named Currie has to be good.
Jeff C(urrie)
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