A not-for-profit group is putting finishing touches on plans to turn the old Minnesota Zephyr dinner train depot in Stillwater into a performing arts center. Calyssa Hall with Zephyr Theater Company says the goal is a million dollars in pledges and donations by October 31st so they can hopefully own the building by year’s end. Hall says, “We’re just pushing the 950, getting to a million point here, so we should hopefully be able to do it in the next week or so.” The Zephyr Depot has been closed for eight years after the dinner train’s owner sold the track right-of-way to the D-N-R for a bike trail.