In 1903 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, the Milwaukee Road, built a spur into Kenyon to compete with the Great Western for the town's grain, milk and passengers. The 1909 county history lists the village as served by both the "C. G. W. and C. M. & St. Paul railways." The spur never paid. It outlasted its rival by six years, closing in 1974, and its trestle over the North Fork of the Zumbro survives as a landmark on the south side of town, listed by Google as the Historic Milwaukee Road Trestle. The city's trail plan, part of the 2025 Empowering Small Minnesota Cities project, looks at the old rail corridors as the route for a paved crossing from Trondheim Park to Depot Park that avoids the highway.