Did not have chance to look at these earlier. Great photos. Thanks!
A 1948 downtown New York Avenue (correction 14th St.) photo not posted earlier:
daveklepper A 1948 downtown New York Avenue photo not posted earlier:
A 1948 downtown New York Avenue photo not posted earlier:
Besides the amazing trolley, I think there is a Buick 2DR Sedanette, a Buick Coupe, a Ford Business Coupe (?) and a DeSoto Custom Suburban taxi in the pic.
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That last photo is on 14th Street, not New York Ave. I watched a fire at that Hanover shoe store one day.
Two more discovered Capitol Transit photos from my teen-age past, first at Kenilworth Junction, where the Seat Pleanant double-track and Kenilworth single-track branches join to form the Benning - Roslyln line. No idea why the lightweight double-end car appears headed in the reverse direction toward Seat Plsasant on the Roslyn-bound track. Don't remembere riding any fantrips, just always regular service. Any ideas? And where is the junction of the second photo located?
Possibly, I was confused when discovering, fixing, and posting theses two photographs. Could the top photo be of the loop at Roslyn, with the two tracks to the left layover storage tracks, and the lower photo that of Kenilworth Junction?
Now that I discovered and did my best to fix this photo, it is obvious the one above the previous one and this one are not at Rosylin but at Seat Pleasant. The two layup tracks are what remains of the WB&A line from Washington to Annapolis Junctionl. Note the continuation of the RoW beyond the end of the layup tracks.
Can someone identify the location and the specific church in this photo?
Richard Allman tells me a similar photo by Ed Miller identifies the church as the New York Avenue Prewbytereian Church, so the location is on NY Av.
Richard Allman tells me a similar photo by Ed Miller identifies the church as the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, so the location is on NY Av.
Wow! Thanks!
Thank Mike .. courtesy of Mike!
Also I believe a New York Avenue location, at the crossover that was once used by WB&A inerurbans.
From Richard Allman:
Per John Merriken’s book Every Hour on the Hour about WB&A, the terminal was at New York Avenue and 12th Street. The cars came west on New York Avenue, turned south on 12th Street, turned left onto a 3-track terminal around H Street, then north onto 11th Street and then eastbound on New York Avenue. Did they at some point simply reverse and cross over on New York Avenue? Merriken’s book is sketchy about it. There are couple photos of cars turning back at the Treasury at New York Avenue and 15th Street, several blocks in from the terminal.
Isn't that the location of the above photo? --Dave
Dave,
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Richard Allman agrees:
A few minutes after the previous picture was snapped, the ex-Preovidence lightweight ran throught the crossover to return to the Benning crossover beyond the change to trolley-wire operation:
From Mike:
Dave's streetcar shows an ad for Aida, scheduled for Aug. 4, 1948 at the Water Gate on the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial.
Water Gate concert barge in 1935, Arlington Memorial Bridge practically invisible
With blind-side doors, 701 obviously was once a double-end car. I suspect this view is on 14th Street.
Yes, it was raining.
Before the WB&A terminal between 11th and 12th was opened (1921), WB&A cars changed ends in the street at the crossover at New York and 15th. The WRy&E was financially involved in the WB&A terminal as it greatly reduced congestion on New York Avenue.
Thanks!
Another rainy-day picture. Also 701 was single-ended, previous photo, 731 remained double-end:
And here is another at the Junction of the lines to Kennelworth and Seat Pleasant
Henry Desutsch supplied this 1960 postcard photo of Union Station with PCCs in front:
My parents took me and my sister to quite a few concerts there, before the jets got too loud and they stopped them. We loved running up and down the steps while the music played.
Fond memories.
Here are two additional photos at the Peace Monument (?) just rediscovered and requiring relatively little effort to make presentable. I think from Spring 1947, age 15:
I posted the first photo some time ago, showing how Capitol Transit maintained service with a single-track temporary bridge through a construction zone. The second, just restored, shows the temporary single-track operation with a photo through a PCC windshield:
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