A westbound streetcar on Superior Street at 8th Avenue West enters the curve approaching Point of Rocks. In the distance at right are the Soo Line and Union depots.
Looking north up 57th Avenue from across the intersection. Note the two streetcars passing on the sharp angled corner. A Northland Greyhound bus is at left and inbound on the Bayview Heights-Proctor line.
Four streetcar lines (Woodland, Kenwood, E. 8th Street, and W. 4th Street) climbed away from downtown Duluth via 5th Avenue E. The camera is looking east on 3rd Street.
Group photo of Duluth Street Railway Safety Team #3. Left to right, back row: Leo Matysek, Nels Johnson, Art LaPierre, John Hayes, Carl D. Smith, Richard R. Radig; 2nd row, John Wiski, Harold Ward, Ole Wicker, Carl Buness, Lawrence Swanstrom, Uno Lyons, Adolph Olson, Ted Kurek; front row, George Berg, William Pearling, Sam Olsen, William Hafner, Axel Gafvert, Ole Giswold, Fred Hanson.
In 1896, the Duluth Street Railway converted an 1891-built streetcar into the parlor car "St. Louis." Furnished with 12 upholstered chairs, oriental rugs, heavy curtains, an ice box and buffet, it was used by company officials to entertain guests and was available for charters and tours. It is shown outside the car house on Superior Street West shortly before it was scrapped in 1918.
Group photo of Duluth Street Railway managers in front of DSR office building. Identities are left to right: Instructor Tranvik; car starter R. Paul; cashier J. Boltman; car starter Angus McMillan; line foreman J. Midtby; switchman C. Huttel; station foreman Pat O'Toole; line foreman Brent Stene; station foreman W. Hafner; car starter Al Frickman, line foreman R.T. Smallidge; station foreman Carl Rankin; station clerk Sangster; starter John Hamilton; money receiver Bessy Hintz; coasting instructor F. Gallagher; relief foreman E.W. Burg; Superintendent H. H. Brown; instructor John Wiski.
Group photo of Duluth Street Railway managers, with either their wives or female office employees in front of DSR office building. Persons identified are: Standing taller in the back Alice Sullivan and D.C. Moor; others from left to right: Wellington, Hughes, O. Birdsall, H.H. Brown, Phoebe Brassard, Mabel or Edith Halgren, unknown woman, Alice McMeekin, Ashbidel Ryan, unknown woman, unknown woman, unknown woman, unknown woman, Fuller, unknown woman, unknown man, McRae, unknown woman, H.H. Morrison, unknown woman, Bill Johnson(?), unknown woman, McManus, Reichert, Byers, Warren, McDonald, Macauley.
This safety poster warned against reckless behavior around streetcars. It was cut down from a car card, and advertisement displayed inside a streetcar and was used as backing for another photo in a scrapbook, which is why part of the text is missing.
Employees of the Duluth Street Railway and their families gather for a World War I patriotic ceremony at the car house on West Superior Street. In the crowd are several women employed as streetcar operators while the men are off at war. They are wearing pillbox hats.
On November 21, 1924 Captain A. R. Morse accidentally steered the 600-foot steam "Merton E. Farr" into the Interstate Bridge. The Interstate Bridge was the only non-railway bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin at that time. The Great Northern Railway, which owned the brdige, put eight barges and a crew of 100 men to work to clear the wreckage and rebuild the brdige. This image shows the efforts to rebuild the bridge seven days after the accident. Caption reads, "Broken span Dul-Sup Bridge taken from east end of open draw span 2:30 p.m. 11-28-24."
Every streetcar company employed work cars designed to haul materials and perform other maintenance functions. Car #1 was built in 1901 and is shown at the car house on West Superior Street.
The Duluth Street Railway employed four snowplows to keep the lines open in winter. Plow #2 was built by Twin City Rapid Transit in 1903 and is shown here at the Duluth car house.
Passengers boarded both Duluth and Twin Cities streetcars through these rear gates. Streetcar 265 survives today, and operates in Minneapolis on the Minnesota Streetcar Museum's Como-Harriet Line. The photograph location is Superior Street at 13th Avenue East.
A streetcar built in 1911 sits on Superior Street outside the car house (at right). The wire basket was called a fender, a safety device designed to scoop up a pedestrian and prevent death under the wheels.
Two work cars loaded with rail stress testing the bridge in Duluth, Minnesota. Standing on car, left to right: A. Anderson, R. P. Williams (timekeeper), Hughes.