A History of Minneapolis: Transportation: Resources

Resources

Hennepin History Museum http://www.hhmuseum.org/
Light Rail (City of Minneapolis) http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/citywork/light-rail/index.html
Light Rail (Metropolitan Council) http://www.metrocouncil.org/planning/lrt-index.htm
Light Rail (Minnesota DOT) http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/LRT
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport http://www.mspairport.com/
Minnesota Historical Society http://www.mnhs.org/
Minnesota Railroad Attractions http://www.railterminal.com/mnrr.html
Minnesota Transportation Museum http://www.mtmuseum.org/
Minnesota's National Register Properties http://nrhp.mnhs.org/
US Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/history/engineering/
What Was the Great Northern Railway? http://www.gnrhs.org/gn_history.htm

Atwater, Isaac. History of Minneapolis.
New York, Munsell Pub. Co., 1895.
Kane, Lucile M. The falls of St. Anthony: the water fall that built Minneapolis.
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.
Stevens, John Harrington. Personal recollections of Minnesota and its people: and early history of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis: [Tribune Job Ptg. Co.],1890.
Stipanovich, Joseph. City of Lakes: an illustrated history of Minneapolis.
Woodland Hills, Calif.: Windsor Publication, Inc. 1982.

Allard, Noel. Minnesota aviation history, 1857-1945.
1st ed. Chaska, Minn.: MAHB Pub.,c1993.
Back from the farm.
[Minn.: W. Olsen,] [195-?]
Bremer, Karl D. America's Northcoast gateway: Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport.
Encino, Calif.: Jostens Pub. Group, c1993.
Electric railways of Minneapolis & St. Paul.
Los Angeles: Interurbans, 1953.
George W. Barton and Associates. Freeways in Minneapolis: an appraisal prepared for the City of Minneapolis.
Evanston, Ill.,1957.
Lowry, Goodrich. Streetcar man: Tom Lowry and the Twin City Rapid Transit Company.
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, Co., c1979.
Luecke, John. Dreams, disasters, and demise: the Milwaukee Road in Minnesota.
[Eagan, Minn.] (P.O. Box 21-361. Eagan 55121): [Grenadier Publication], c1988.
Olson, Russell L. The electric railways of Minnesota.
Hopkins, Minn., Minnesota Transportation Museum, 1976.
One more ride: a history of the streetcar in Minneapolis & St. Paul. [videorecording]
Minneapolis, Minn.: Master Communication Group, c1989.
Thorvig, Perry. Railroads in Minneapolis: an inventory.
[Minneapolis, Minn.]: Minneapolis Planning and Development, [1970]

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Vertical Files

Airlines: name of airline
Airports: name of airport
Aviation:
Automobile-History
Boats: see Excursion boats, Ferry boats, Steamboats, etc.
Biography: name of person (i.e. John Tapper, first toll keeper on Suspension Bridge)
Depots
Highways: name of roadway
Metropolitan Transit Commission
Mississippi River: see under Upper Harbor Project, Riverfront, Locks and Dams
Streets: name of street
Transportation: Buses: general or under name of bus
Transportation: Railways name of railway
Transportation: Street railway
Transportation: Taxicabs.

Photographs cataloged and uncatalogued by subject name.

Maps for transportation routes including horse motorlines, streetrailway lines, railroad lines, excursion routes