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Whitefish, along with the Whitefish Depot and neighboring Glacier National Park, shares an intertwined history with the Great Northern Railroad. James J Hill founded Great Northern in 1889 and it ran from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington. Hill developed the areas the along the train routes to attract tourism and trade.

The railroad built the Whitefish Depot in 1928 using the same alpine style as the Great Northern-built National Park Lodges. The Stumptown Historical Society purchased the station and restored it in the 1990s. Today, it houses a museum with exhibits on local history and is once again an active railway station for Amtrak.

With some time to kill before our dinner reservations at nearby Abruzzo, we walked around the depot.

A vintage Great Northern locomotive stands on display, alongside an antique bus that once transported passengers from Kalispell to the Whitefish station..

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Location: 500 Depot St, Whitefish, Montana
Designation: National Register of Historic Places
Date designated/established: July 11, 2002
Date of my visit: June 22, 2018