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.
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 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.
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.
On November 21, 1924 Captain A. R. Morse accidentally steered the 600-foot steam "Merton E. Farr" into the Interstate Bridge. The Interstate Bridge was the only non-railway bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin at that time. The Great Northern Railway, which owned the brdige, put eight barges and a crew of 100 men to work to clear the wreckage and rebuild the brdige. This image shows the efforts to rebuild the bridge seven days after the accident. Caption reads, "Broken span Dul-Sup Bridge taken from east end of open draw span 2:30 p.m. 11-28-24."
Employees of the Duluth Street Railway and their families gather for a World War I patriotic ceremony at the car house on West Superior Street. In the crowd are several women employed as streetcar operators while the men are off at war. They are wearing pillbox hats.