Minneapolis Filtration Plant Railway runs along the west edge of Reservoir Boulevard on its way from the Soo Line interchange at 37th Avenue to the Filtration Plant.
Passengers transferred from streetcars to the gas-electric trains of the Dan Patch Line at this transfer station at Diamond Lake Road and Nicollet Avenue.
Streetcar built in the Snelling Shops for Grand Rapids, Michigan parked on Snelling Avenue, south of Hewitt. Hamline University's Old Main building is visible in the background.
These are the wheel sets (trucks) of a Twin Cities streetcar, manufactured at the company shops. Each four-wheel truck had a pair of 50 horsepower motors geared to the axles. The metal blades in the foreground are snow scrapers.
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.
Following its abandonment, workers remove the tracks of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range trolley line along East River Road north of the Northern Ordinance plant.
Following its abandonment, workers remove the tracks of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range trolley line along East River Road north of the Northern Ordinance plant.
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 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.
To help service its Lake Minnetonka fleet of passenger carrying express boats, Twin City Rapid Transit built the tugboat "Hercules," shown here at the Excelsior docks.
A Chicago-Penn streetcar has just crossed over the railroad throat on the north edge and is crossing 3rd Avenue on 7th Street. The curving track in the foreground was used by Anoka streetcars to access their downtown depot, shared with the Dan Patch and Luce Line trains.
Looking east from the roof of the Hotel Hastings at the intersection of 12th St. and Hennepin Avenue. Visible in the distance are the Minneapolis Auditorium, the Wesley Temple Building and the Wesley Temple.
Twin City Rapid Transit built several experimental lightweight streetcars in an attempt to reduce operating costs. This pair is pictured on Snelling Avenue next to Snelling Shops, where it was built.