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."
View south from water tower looking across the intersection of 27th Avenue and West Superior Street, in Duluth, Minnesota. Rear of office building at left.
Two work cars loaded with rail stress testing the bridge in Duluth, Minnesota. Standing on car, left to right: A. Anderson, R. P. Williams (timekeeper), Hughes.
Design drawing, including a plan, section and elevation of a switch car - locomotive built by Twin City Rapid Transit for the University of Minnesota, to be used on the Inter-Campus line.
Looking west from the south side of the tracks at the pedestrian footbridge next to the Como Park Station. The Lexington Avenue bridge is in the distance.
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"
Color lithograph card promoting safety titled "Dangerous Sport," with drawing of children on bicycles hitching a ride by holding onto the rear streetcar gates.
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.
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. Streetcars on Superior Street pass.
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. This is the view from the top.
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.
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.