National Guard looking for survivors in the wreckage of the Sea Wing after an accident on Lake Pepin, July 13, 1890.

Albert Lea Train Station, a former depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road). The station was built in 1914 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Photograph by Titian Butash, August 8, 2024.

You can go practically anywhere on a Greyhound bus nowadays, but when two men from Hibbing started the company in 1914, the only route was from Hibbing to Alice and back again. That is, until a new fleet of sleek, gray buses changed everything

A miniature version of a Northland Transportation Company bus. Date of manufacture unknown but ca. 1930.

The Minneapolis headquarters of the Northland Transportation Company (North Fifth Avenue at Sixth Avenue), June 6, 1927.

Map of Northland Transportation bus routes, 1928.

A Northland Greyhound bus in a ditch, ca. 1925.

Fageol safety coach operated by White Bus Lines on a road in St. Louis County, Minnesota,1923.

Panoramic view of Mesaba Transportation Company buses and drivers parked on McKinley Street in North Hibbing. In the background are a water tower (far left), the Lincoln School, the St. Louis County Courthouse (center), and a residential area (far right). Aubin Photograph Studio Collection, Hibbing Historical Society.