Northern Pacific Railroad Shops in Brainerd large group picture. Same employees as in photograph os2-15, but with hats on. Please click the link to view a related image: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/cwc,200
Northern Pacific Railroad Shops in Brainerd large group picture. Same employees as in photograph os2-11, but with hats off. Please click the link to view a related image: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/cwc,186
Northern Pacific Shops in Brainerd large group photo. Same employees as in photograph r1-32, but with hats off. Please click the link to view a related image: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/cwc,144
Northern Pacific Railroad Shops in Brainerd group photo. Same employees as in photograph r1-29, but with hats on. Please click on the link to view a related image: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/cwc,145
Postcard showing the railroad yards of Belle Plaine looking west. The White Lily Flour Mill and grain elevator visible as well as the depot with box cars pulled up to it. Left corner missing due to the removal of the postage stamp. Postcard addressed to Mr. Mat Deusterman, Jordan.
According to description on the verso appears to have been part of a set taken for the opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Minneapolis; street decorations; electric power pole; streetcar tracks, unpaved streets, and buildings.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Black and white postcard with a photograph of a airplane crash at the Winona Fair Grounds. Closer look of the plane with people looking all around at the wreckage.
Twin Cities streetcars were built with a semi-open rear platform enclosed by wire gates, and were referred to as gate cars. This is the view an exiting passenger would have seen.
Upstairs at each of the streetcar stations was a trainmen's dormitory, where they could sleep between work shifts. This one is at Lake Street Station at 22nd Avenue.
On the ground floor of each of the streetcar stations was the trainmen's room, where they gather to prepare for work. This one is at Lake Street Station at 22nd Avenue.
Twin City Rapid Transit Company President Thomas Lowry toured the streetcar system in a custom-built private streetcar, shown here outside 31st Street Station.
Twin City Rapid Transit Company President Thomas Lowry toured the streetcar system in a custom-built private streetcar, shown here outside 31st Street Station.
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.