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Hopefully we can have transit this comprehensive again in the future

This was wonderful. Thank you!

The first shot of a PCC in San Francisco is actually painted for Detroit.

Ate at “The Embers” on East lake street 1980-81. Great times when I was young

Just bring the trollys back for summer

Bring the trollys back😮😮😮😢😢😢

Wonderful….all of your videos! . I grew up in SW Minneapolis in the 60s/early 70s between the south ends 4Como/Harriet & 6Xerxes/Southdale (MTC bus by then, of course.) We’d always heard the routes were based on the original streetcar lines, dıdon’t fully grasp it until finding the remnants/ old right-of-ways, etc. Your presentation videos -so well done!-really fill in the blanks, Thank You! Also, I now live just off Baker Rd N of Hwy 7 and believe there may have been an old stop very near? I’ve subscribed and will donate…keep up the great work! History is critical!!

This video is a gem. It is exactly what my grandfather and his family would have seen in their daily life in S Mpls. I am pretty sure I have an old relative in that cemetery, and that so do others.

Bring this back!!

This got dismantled for safety reasons

Bring back trolleys on some streets😊😊😊please

I remember my great-grandfather talking about him taking the streetcar out to Lake Phalen with his shotgun and hunting dog...

Fantastic!!

Thank you for this. My 95 year old mother will be thrilled to see this. She said she rode the incline all the time to see her aunt, uncle and cousins. Got off at the 4th St station and walked down to 3rd St. I too have been looking for video of the incline. Many thanks. Mom was born and raised in Duluth and always rode buses from West Duluth to downtown.

My ex-wife's Aunt used to run streetcars. She lived in the little house, currently behind the Taco Bell and across the street from the school and what was then "Leon's Bar" on 49th and Central in Columbia Heights. Is there any records of Helen Warhol as a motorman or in some other capacity running streetcars?

My dad said he was on the cover of the Star Tribune on the last streetcar, hoping to see that here never looked it up to see if it's online, quite a scam they pulled off on Minneapolis

Was there a streetcar that went by the cathedral of Saint Paul

On 6th and wabasha Walgreens is on the the southeast corner of wabasha and 6th Street

Coughing and snotting into the mic is beyond annoying.

The later mesaba cliffs or the Cleveland Cliffs Hill Trumbull Mine in Marble Minnesota The washing plant was located on the south side of Calumet Minnesota most of the Hill Annex mine is in the city of Marble on the north side of Calumet the Hill Annex used the electric locomotive s in the pit an also to the washing plant located south east of Calumet until 1952 when the heavy media washing plant was constructed near the Hill Annex pit .The locomotive that was donated to the Hill Annex state park in 1978 it was refurbished an put on display near the heavy media plant in the last few years it has been vandalized heavily along with many of the remaining mine buildings! Originally the Cliffs operation an the Hill Annex mine operations used steam locomotives in their respective pit an transport to each of their washing plants after WW2 locomotive an railway operation stop as pit operations converted to truck haulage an conveyer systems because the pit where much deeper an rail haulage was no longer cost effective . The Cliffs operated until 1972 hauling ore to the Hill Trumbull washing plant after 1972 Cliffs stopped operations in the Marble area! There is a short video on TH-cam called Ed Wicks train that shows the Cliffs electric train in action if anyone is interested in seeing how it operates!,,,

The video reference to "East Side Station" (8:50) was actually referred to by the motormen as the "Duluth Station" as it was located on the northwest corner of Duluth and East Seventh Streets on the east side of St. Paul.

At about 28:50, a car pulls up to the Lake Harriet - 42nd Street crossing as the streetcar approaches. The automobile stops and then immediately rolls backward down the hill. The days of the manual transmission.

Pretty cool that in the Lake Como shot 4:34, you can see the NE lobe of the lake in the upper left that's since been drained and is now part of the 18th(?) hole of the golf course. And practically no structures on the horizon just north of the lake.

I grew up in Woodland and remember the trollies running in the mid fifties. My Great grand parents were some of the first people to live there. I also remember the turn around at the end had a building with a large porch that had chairs where old men would sit and play checkers. That funky odd shaped little building on your slide with Glen Avon is a home. It's still there

The extension cables were used in the pit near the loading shovels. Since tracks were moved frequently as mining progressed, that saved setting up and moving the overhead wires.

The 2 Oliver operations with very small locos weren't for moving iron ore, they were for disposing of rock separated from the ore at the crushing plant.

I didnt realize that street cars went all the way to Lake Phalen, but it makes sense!

05:40 There is a church on the corner of Payne and Nebraska that I went to as a kid called Messiah Lutheran, but I think it is something else now, but it does not match the architecture. Did you figure it out?

Really cool video! Seeing the Montgomery Wards building brought back a flood of memories hanging out with my hot rodding dad in his 34 Ford in that parking lot. Was the beginning of the end of Wards, but the car dealership across the street too. Can I turn back time to 1988 again?

@8:28, that house with the stone bottom part is still there. You can see an old Jeep wagoner with lime green paint and windows parked in the drive, the guy is weird. I used to live on strawberry hill next to that.

I miss my home town, but I really would love to go back and see it back in this day.

Stolen from the Ojibway.....this city was found ,stop the lies.....reset was real.

enjoyed the pictures of Mpls / St. Paul in the 1950's *LIKED* and *SUBSCRIBED*

Always so exciting to find a section of old streetcar tracks poking out from the asphalt that had covered it years ago.

The local Ojibways know this land was stolen,bel8eve me! There are Ayahuasca and various DMT ceremonies being held right underground downtown to keep us connected to our ancesters,we have been there for longer than they say...

my grandma tought me the weatherball forcast jargin in the 1970s

Wonderful post. What are the contraptions mounted on the front of the street cars used for? Is it a safety device to keep pedestrians back? Maybe something to haul bicycles on?

So much has been lost to "progress " so sad.

I have a grandma that is buried in that cemetery. Mare S.

No population to support this crock of BS. When was this POS filmed? I see some buildings that haven't been scheduled to be built yet in these, no skyline crap photo shop garbage. But of course, there's this huge demand for this pile of crap?! Dahh! You stupid corn feed dumb shits. Fuck you, dead and irrelevant socialist cowards . Suck as much dick as you are accustomed to suck every night, Filthy commie maggot.

Have any of the old pictures been photo shopped? Looks like it to me.

First part of the vid, appears to show park point. What is this BS?

Excellent work...as usual. I know next to nothing about the Twin Cities. Your trolley trips are fascinating. They remind me of my youth in Pittsburgh. Keep them coming, please.

Sure wish I could have grown up during the street car era!

Excellent, love the narrator's smooth voice.

That is the best streetcar video I've ever seen--and I've watched many. Usually they just have film with no narration, you don't know what location you are looking at. Excellent.

I still use the ravine part of the line from Cleveland to Eustis for walking and mountain biking. The county recently re-did Cleveland Ave but did not put in a culvert that could be walked or biked through to reach the campus side of Cleveland. One could maybe crawl through it. Anyway this right of way through the ravine is one of my favorite parts of the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood. I only hope it stays the way it is or gets developed into a paved trail. I always thought the line went straight west after Eustis. Makes sense that it would hook up with the Como line. I remember that shelter at Como and Eustis. You used to have to change busses, from the Como-Striker, to the Minneapolis, Como and Harriet line and wait in that shelter. I live off of Raymond Ave. right next to the new inter campus bus way. I'm glad that they allow bicycles to use it. It's an easy way to get to my dental appointments at the UofM dental school and to downtown Minneapolis.

Once you discover this part of our history and the extent to which the streetcar network had coverage over it really puts the blue and green line to shame.

Marvelous tutorial on a system that was taken away too soon. I enjoyed the narration very much. I did ride PCC’s in. Mexico D F in 1958. Hopefully one of yours.

old world electric cars . . . around prior to 1880's. Question narratives.