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.
Looking north toward 42nd Street along the Como-Harriet streetcar tracks on the west side of Lake Harriet. Linden Hills depot and Lake Harriet waiting shelters are visible.
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"
A shuttle streetcar ran from 52nd Avenue East and Crosley Avenue to a connection with the 45th Avenue East and Superior Street, where it connected with the bus to downtown. This is 45th & Superior, with the motorman waiting for the connecting bus.
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.
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.
This is one of five identical lightweight streetcars built for Duluth in 1925 by the Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company, which used the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit in St. Paul. The cars were initially assigned to Superior, Wisconsin and later were moved to Duluth.
A streetcar built in 1911 sits on Superior Street outside the car house (at right). The wire basket was called a fender, a safety device designed to scoop up a pedestrian and prevent death under the wheels.
Passengers boarded both Duluth and Twin Cities streetcars through these rear gates. Streetcar 265 survives today, and operates in Minneapolis on the Minnesota Streetcar Museum's Como-Harriet Line. The photograph location is Superior Street at 13th Avenue East.
The offices of Duluth Superior Transit Company were located on Superior Street at 27th Avenue West, next to the former streetcar house, converted to bus operations after 1939.
Every streetcar company employed work cars designed to haul materials and perform other maintenance functions. Car #1 was built in 1901 and is shown at the car house on West Superior Street.
The East Side streetcar station was located on 1st Avenue NE between University Avenue and 4th Street. It housed streetcars from 1891 to 1954 and survives today as the Superior Plating Co.