The Track Department occupied the east edge of Twin City Rapid Transit's Snelling Shops. A crane car sorts rail to be used in future track construction or repair projects.
A crew posed with one of the high speed Lake Minnetonka streetcars. Across the bottom of the photograph is written, "Weland & Me 211-26o Cooling the Wheels off 1913"
A shuttle streetcar ran from 52nd Avenue East and Crosley Avenue to a connection with the 45th Avenue East and Superior Street, where it connected with the bus to downtown. This is 45th & Superior, with the motorman waiting for the connecting bus.
The Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company was branded as the Dan Patch Line by owner Marion Savage, who owned the champion trotting horse. In 1912 it opened this depot at Diamond Lake Road and Nicollet Avenue, where its passengers transferred to the Nicollet Avenue streetcar line.
A lineup of streetcars in the carhouse yard. This view includes single truck LaClede and Northern Car Company (44-46) cars, plus new Twin City Rapid Transit standard cars.
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.
The offices of Duluth Superior Transit Company were located on Superior Street at 27th Avenue West, next to the former streetcar house, converted to bus operations after 1939.
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.
Streetcar 78 was built for Duluth in 1892 by the Laclede Car Company of St. Louis. It survives today in the collection of the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and operates at its streetcar line in Excelsior.
An early single truck streetcar, modified with the state-mandated enclosed front platform, poses with its crew outside the 31st Street Station on Nicollet Avenue.
Viewed from the intersection of 1st Avenue NE and University Avenue, the East Side station (the last operating Twin Cities streetcar barn) is for sale.
Looking southeast from the roof of the East Side Station at streetcar 1298 on 1st Avenue Northeast. The switchman behind the streetcar is Charlie Fisher.
On the day after streetcars stopped running in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Railfans Association chartered two cars for a farewell trip. Riders stand outside the carbarn doors as the cars pull out.