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Duluth Cont'd: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 4:31am.
Circa 1905. Our second installment of the Duluth, Minnesota, panoramic series. Collect all six! Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
Thanks Shorpy
Submitted by Barry on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 4:48pm.
The building on the far left is The Depot -- now a museum, art center and railroad museum.
My grandpa used to ride the incline railway to church when he was a kid. He'd walk a few miles to get to the top, ride it down to church and then ride back up to buy a pound of Fig Newtons to eat on the way home.
Mt. Eerie
Submitted by Papa Bear on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 1:59pm.
Hardly a soul on the streets. Almost deserted.
Zenith City
Submitted by MinnFinn on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 8:43am.
Thanks for another great shot of "The Zenith City on the unsalted sea"!
Conveyor Belt? Aqueduct?
Submitted by Rute Boye on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 8:28am.
Does anyone know the function of the long elevated structure running diagonally down the hill from the top left of the photo? I'm speculating that it is a conveyor belt used to carry ore to waiting RR cars, but I can't see where it begins or ends. (Maybe it will be shown in another frame of this photo series?)
[It's the Duluth Incline Railway. - Dave]
Transportation
Submitted by FD on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 8:25am.
Is the trestle structure in the upper right related to the short-lived tram or funicular that operated in Duluth?
The Union Railroad Depot in the far left middle of the photo near the Selz sign exists now as a museum and arts center. The railroad museum has a nice collection of locomotives and rolling stock. Everything else at that corner is gone.
So inclined
Submitted by jsmakbkr on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 8:10am.
What looks from this angle like a long toboggan chute is actually Duluth's Incline Railway. The author of a photo book on Duluth's history claims that it, too, was dismantled in the thirties and sold to the Japanese as scrap. http://www.cityhistory.us/duluth/photos/photos03.htm
e.e. cummings could not be reached for comment.
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