The history and evolution of the line serving Minnehaha Park and Fort Snelling. Recorded from a Zoom meeting January 3, 2022. Narrated by Aaron Isaacs.
I am 92 years old. I remember standing on the corner of 38th st and 28 Ave The trolley came up 28th and turned left on to 38th St. There was an Elecrical spark and a plume of Blue smoke came from under the car.. This was first time I saw and smelled Ozone.
I love watching these videos. I haven’t lived in Mpls. since 1966 when I was 18 but the city buses were my only mode of transportation along with my feet! One of my sisters lived at 7 Corners and on occasion I caught a bus at St. Mary’s Hospital when I lived in the adjoining college dorm. My paternal grandfather served in the Civil War so I was excited to see you point out the Old Soldier’s Home on one of the streetcar maps. He lived there at the end of his life. Sadly, the marker on his grave at Ft. Snelling is missing.
Hi Aaron, Another excellent job. Very informative and interesting. Well researched and well narrated. I really enjoy watching these presentations. I feel a certain connection and kinship with Minneapolis-St. Paul, after riding on your PCC cars for many decades in Newark, New Jersey. I really loved those cars. In this presentation, you show a 1953 fan trip using TCRT PCC car 406. It would be really interesting to figure out what happened to that car and where it might still be today. It could be one of the ex-TCRT PCC cars now running in San Francisco. Or maybe it's in a trolley museum, or maybe it's one of the ex-Shaker Heights cars that went to Buffalo, New York for the failed proposal for a line to Tonawanda, New York. Those cars found their way to the failed attempt for a trolley line in Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N. Y. Stored for years at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard site and considered abandoned, they were offered 'free for the taking' several years ago by the public Corporation that owns the site. I tried my utmost best to get them saved, with no luck. Sadly, all were cut up and scrapped. Too bad I didn't know you guys back then. Imagine if some of them had been rescued, returned to Minneapolis and restored for use on a tourist loop operation in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Oh well !! You'd feel right at home here tonight. I live a block from the Atlantic Ocean in New Jersey and we had a rare foot + of snow here. And it's about 16F degrees here, also quite rare for here but right at home for you guys...lol.... Too bad I don't have the technology to join your Zoom meetings. I'd enjoy that. Happy, Healthy, Safe New Year to all of you guys.
Fantastic videos. This is from before my time, but I grew up in the Hiawatha neighborhood, and it’s interesting to see these locations from decades before I was born. Do you have any photos of the cars along 42nd ave near The Riverview Theater? I didn’t know a car ran along there until recently when I saw a photo of the opening of the theater and tracks along the street.
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I am 92 years old. I remember standing on the corner of 38th st and 28 Ave The trolley came up 28th and turned left on to 38th St. There was an Elecrical spark and a plume of Blue smoke came from under the car.. This was first time I saw and smelled Ozone.
I love watching these videos. I haven’t lived in Mpls. since 1966 when I was 18 but the city buses were my only mode of transportation along with my feet! One of my sisters lived at 7 Corners and on occasion I caught a bus at St. Mary’s Hospital when I lived in the adjoining college dorm. My paternal grandfather served in the Civil War so I was excited to see you point out the Old Soldier’s Home on one of the streetcar maps. He lived there at the end of his life. Sadly, the marker on his grave at Ft. Snelling is missing.
Hi Aaron,
Another excellent job. Very informative and interesting. Well researched and well narrated. I really enjoy watching these presentations. I feel a certain connection and kinship with Minneapolis-St. Paul, after riding on your PCC cars for many decades in Newark, New Jersey. I really loved those cars. In this presentation, you show a 1953 fan trip using TCRT PCC car 406. It would be really interesting to figure out what happened to that car and where it might still be today. It could be one of the ex-TCRT PCC cars now running in San Francisco. Or maybe it's in a trolley museum, or maybe it's one of the ex-Shaker Heights cars that went to Buffalo, New York for the failed proposal for a line to Tonawanda, New York. Those cars found their way to the failed attempt for a trolley line in Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N. Y. Stored for years at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard site and considered abandoned, they were offered 'free for the taking' several years ago by the public Corporation that owns the site. I tried my utmost best to get them saved, with no luck. Sadly, all were cut up and scrapped. Too bad I didn't know you guys back then. Imagine if some of them had been rescued, returned to Minneapolis and restored for use on a tourist loop operation in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Oh well !!
You'd feel right at home here tonight. I live a block from the Atlantic Ocean in New Jersey and we had a rare foot + of snow here. And it's about 16F degrees here, also quite rare for here but right at home for you guys...lol.... Too bad I don't have the technology to join your Zoom meetings. I'd enjoy that. Happy, Healthy, Safe New Year to all of you guys.
Fantastic videos. This is from before my time, but I grew up in the Hiawatha neighborhood, and it’s interesting to see these locations from decades before I was born. Do you have any photos of the cars along 42nd ave near The Riverview Theater? I didn’t know a car ran along there until recently when I saw a photo of the opening of the theater and tracks along the street.