New standard gauge track was laid next to old narrow gauge track to permit continued operation during conversion from horsecars to electric cars. Printed in Germany.
Looking west on Chestnut Street across the Main Street intersection. A westbound streetcar is headed uphill in the block west of Main. Another streetcar is northbound on Main Street at right.
Looking directly up the incline from an elevated position across Superior Street. The decked roof car is on the west track, half a block up the hill. Printed in Germany.
Looking northwest at a streetcar posed with crew. Postcard message reads, "This is taken at the end of the car line on Lake Avenue close to the Aerial Bridge."
In the early 20th Century, Twin City Rapid Transit Company operated special sightseeing streetcars that toured the Twin Cities. In this photo, two of them are at the Mounds Park wye at the south end of Earl Street.
Streetcar on double track loop, next to wood waiting shelter in Phalen Park. Motorman at the controls, conductor in the first right side window in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Twin City Rapid Transit Co. leased and electrified the Milwaukee Road's branch line from Hopkins to Deephaven. This photo shows a streetcar passing Gibbs Lake.
Looking east from cathedral hill at a streetcar entering the cut leading to the lower portal of the Selby tunnel that permitted streetcars to descend Cathedral Hill.
Artistic representation of the Twin City Rapid Transit's Lake Minnetonka line. It was marketed as "The Great White Way" due to the arc lights hanging from the overhead wires.
Trainmen posed with streetcar at East Side Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 416 Ray J. Denlo 1914-1915; 174 Peter A. Paulsen 1911-1918; 406 Adolph A. Wog 1910-1919; 457 Frank H. Kurth 1915-1918; 271 Andrew E. Anderson 1915-1917.
Trainmen posed inside streetcar at Nicollet Station. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Possible identities include: 840 Isaac G. Lunde 1911-1916; 873 Andrew E. Stark 1915-1917.
This is the Superior Street base station of the incline, which was located in the vacant right of way of 7th Avenue West. From 1901 to 1911, the incline ran with a single car, instead of two before and after that period.
Crew members posed with streetcar at the Lake Harriet loop. Written at the top of the postcard, "This is a picture I have finished myself have I improved any? C. B. "
View of Excelsior dock station looking west across the bay from the St. Albans Bay bridge. Ferries and express boats are docked, as well as the Plymouth.