The Duluth incline located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West connected Superior Street on the west end of downtown with the Highland streetcar line at 8th Street, 500 feet higher. Intermediate stations a block apart are visible. Both incline cars are visible at the top and bottom. A streetcar on Superior Street passes the Soo Line depot. In the foreground are passenger cars of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Duluth & Iron Range and Duluth & Northern Minnesota, on tracks adjacent to the Union Depot.
Looking up the east track at an earlier car and counterweight passing each other halfway up the incline. Passengers are in the windows and the operator is standing in the doorway.
This is one of five identical lightweight streetcars built for Duluth in 1925 by the Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company, which used the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit in St. Paul. The cars were initially assigned to Superior, Wisconsin and later were moved to Duluth.
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.
Beginning in 1928, Duluth Street Railway began rebuilding its streetcars so they could operate with only a motorman and no conductor. Car 246, posed in front of the 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.
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.