Duluth is so steep it needed a special incline railway for its streetcar system
Riding along the ten-foot gauge track, the original pair of forty-one by fifteen-foot cars counterbalanced each other, one going up while the other one descended.
Aaron Isaacs is an historian with the Minnesota Streetcar Museum and before that the Minnesota Transportation Museum. He edits the quarterly Twin City Lines history magazine and is co-author of the upcoming book Twin Ports by Trolley — The Streetcar Era in Duluth-Superior, for the University of Minnesota Press.
Riding along the ten-foot gauge track, the original pair of forty-one by fifteen-foot cars counterbalanced each other, one going up while the other one descended.
With male streetcar drivers called up for World War II, Twin City Rapid Transit turned to women to fill the jobs.
By Aaron Isaacs
Nov. 12, 2013