June 18, 1954 was the last day of regularly scheduled streetcar service in the Twin Cities. A special streetcar parade, shown here on Hennepin Avenue at 6th Street, delivered the press and dignitaries to Snelling Shops, where a streetcar was ceremonially burned. Everyone returned to Minneapolis by bus.
On June 19, 1954, the last streetcars, chartered by the Minnesota Railfans Assn., stop on Washington Avenue SE in front of Coffman Union. The streetcar system had been abandoned the previous day.
On November 1, 1953 a chartered streetcar made the last trip to downtown St. Paul. It is stopped on Wabasha Street in front of the Minnesota State Capitol.
On June 19, 1954 the last two streetcars circle the turn loop at 15th Street and Pillsbury Avenue on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus.
In 1943, a short piece of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range trolley line was rehabbed to shuttle freight and employees to the new Northern Ordnance defense plant along East River Road. Here Navy women prepare to break champagne bottles over the bumper of a rehabbed streetcar.
Looking downhill on Seventh Avenue East from Ninth Street, the junction of the abandoned Kenwood Avenue line and still-operating East Eighth Street line in Duluth, Minnesota.