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.
This specialized work car, called a cupola car, was built in 1914 to crush rock into gravel that could then be used as the ballast layer in track construction. It is pictured at Nicollet Station in south Minneapolis.
Looking east from Snelling Avenue at the north half of the Snelling streetcar shops, the Master Mechanic's Office, and the Truck & Machine Building. Montgomery Wards tower is in the distance.