Duluth's streetcars were replaced by buses in 1939. This video includes rare footage, much of it in color, of the streetcars and the city's famous Incline railway.
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.
So much of the charm and character of Duluth has been lost, mostly during the 1950s and 1960s during the great urban renewal which I refer to as urban destruction. There is virtually nothing left of the beautiful buildings in the downtown area.
Amazing. We go to Duluth every summer from the East Central side of the state. Absolutely love the area and anywhere on the north shore! Iconic area with some incredible views. Thanks so much for the share and footage... always wondered what is was like back in the earlier years !
Thanks for sharing this. I often heard my Mom talk about this trolley and heard people say they would like to bring it back to Duluth as a tourist attraction similar to those operating in San Francisco since Duluth has the hills for it.
Thanks to Alan Weeks of Pacific Electric Railway par excellence for sending this my way. Incline railways are so interesting and extremely useful for any who want to get to the top.
I visited Duluth once in my life with my dad about 1950 and I remember thinking it felt like the entire city was somehow glued to the side of a mammoth snowball and if you weren't careful you would fall off!
This is an enigma all of his own all the mysteries that they have building it it's just really awesome awesome City and I live in Minnesota I'm mystified every time I visit those and from brainerd Minnesota but there's the Duluth area it's just really awesome or just different the way they built that City on a hill on the incline and on the down downwards for the shipyards it's just really a mystery how they build all this on the hill and it worked the engineering is just off the charts I would tell others just that they should visit Duluth Minnesota you're just beat you will be intrigued by the engineering process of how they build the city back and 1800s until the about 19 70s now people left for a while and now are coming back and 2020s??????🤔🤔🤗🤗👍👍⁉️⁉️⁉️🤷👷👷🕵️👩🏭🧒👩🔬👩🍳👩🎓👱🧕👮👩✈️🚦⛽🛑🚧🧭🚋🚑🚒🚂🚉🚘🤠🛤️🛣️🏦🏨🏢🏭🏟️🏚️🏥🥌🎿🏒⛸️🚁⛵🛶⛲⛪💒🥇🎳🎰🎲🎺🎻🎨🖌️🎶🎷🎚️🎟️🎭📺📻🖥️💿📠📱🛒🔎🔐⚔️🔔
Great example of more infrastructure we found and claimed to build. I mean, how did every town on planet get street cars in 1800s? Manaus Brazil AND Duluth, haha, what a crock.
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...
