The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows a car built for Chicago.
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows cars built for Chicago and Grand Rapids.
Looking north at an in-service car parked on the main line. Employees are looking underneath it, maybe inspecting a defect. Two other cars and the work motor are in the yard at right.
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. The Influenza epidemic affected the association and an additional assessment of one month's dues was required from members for additional expenses. There was a $10,101.13 deficit at the end of January 1919. The biggest increase in expenses was for death payouts, going from $6699.50 in 1917 to $11900 in 1918. Twenty-eight deaths were listed for 1918 as opposed to 13 in 1917.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. The report notes that it's present membership (2638) is the highest since 1917. The larger membership numbered called for more home visitors, the department increased its staff from one (in 1918) to three in 1921. There were 387 homes visited in 1918 and 943 homes visited in 1921.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. There is also a report on the Association's home visitor, Eva Andersen, who visited with over 300 hundred different families in her first year on the job. A list of member's who died and the life insurance paid out is at the back of the report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report includes income and disbursements of association. Distribution of disbursements by geographic district and the duration and number of disability cases. The number of members who called on association physicians and the names of the station physicians is in the report. Also the names of employees that died and the life insurance paid to their survivors is listed at the end of the report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Car #1 of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range Ry. Was built at Twin City Rapid Transit's Snelling Shops as a modified version of the standard TCRT design. This is its builder's photo.
Panoramic postcard, capturing the opening day of February 16, 1915 in Winstead, Minnesota. There is snow and a large crowd of observers. Caption reads, "Arrival of the Luce Line 'Special' Winstead, Minnesota Feb. 16, 1915 with Col. Luce and party to attend banquet celebrating the opening of the Line to Traffic."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Bannon's Department Store. "Share Profits, Save Red Profit Sharing Stamps, Full Book Worth $2.00 Cash or $2.50 merchandise... Besides Lowest Prices Always, Bannons St.Paul's Oldest Large Home Owned Dept. Store."
Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Big Jo Flour. "Big Jo Flour, The Best in the World. Try it and you will use no other. Wabasha Roller Mill company, Wabasha, Minnesota."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Bjorkman Furs. Bjorkman Furs offers: "Bjorkmanizing" Feezing Cold Fur Storage. The store was located in downtown Minneapolis at Nicollet Avenue and Tenth Street.
Streetcar interior advertisement for radios at Boutell's furniture store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Immediate Delivery!! Table Radios, Boutells, Marquette at Fifth."
Design drawing, including elevation and section of bracket and curtain fixture details of a Twin City Rapid Transit experimental double deck streetcar.
Streetcars from Minneapolis and St. Paul prepare to back into the Bridge Junction wye at Fort Snelling, where they will meet the Fort Snelling Shuttle.
A Broadway crosstown streetcar exits the east end of the Broadway bridge over the Mississippi, Back then the bridge emptied onto 13th Avenue NE, not Broadway NE. The streetcar is number 2000, the first experimental lightweight car built by Twin City Rapid Transit in 1915.
A Bryant LOOP car, meaning it terminated in downtown, leaves its layover point at 1st Avenue N., and turns onto 1st Street, leading to Hennepin Avenue.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Bur-Mil stockings, with endorsement from Lana Turner. "Lana Turner Wears Bur-Mil Cameo Stockings with Exclusive Face Powder Finish."