Thanks - Todah - Shukhran
daveklepper, Thanks for posting these photos. I just found them. I have been modeling and researching the Georgetown Branch of the B&O for over 20 years, which crossed over the CTCo line at Dalecarlia which these two photos are from. The first, with the "shoofly" track was from when the Reservoir was installing some new hardware - probably pipe lines - beneath the track. They'd dug a long trench across the right of way, thus the bridge. In the second photo, if you look really carefully, you can see the old track (to the left) has been severed; It's barely visible at the edge of the frame. I have a few other photos from this spot that show the arrangement. I really loved seeing these photos! Thank you for sharing them!
- Ben Sullivan
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Thanks for the correction, and I'll correct the posting.
However, I do question "nowhere near," since both are in downtown Washington.
That's on Pennsylvania Avenue, looks like just east of the circle. New York Avenue was not near there.
Improved over earlier version. Eastbound PCC to short-turn at Washington Circle, on Pennsylvania Avenue, but where?
Ex-Providence double-truck lightweight and PCCs near Benning Carhouse and /yard. 506, actually at the junction with the freight sur to P:atomikc Edison, is signed for route 72 to Patomic Park, so it must be a put-in coming from the yard, heading downtown for evening Rush-Hour trips on Rt. 72. but I may be mistaken for memories of 75+ years ago:
Thanks
The number 370 makes it hard to match with the roster in Leroy King's "100 years of Capital Traction" (There's a gap between 366 and 377), but looking at photo captions and notes this is one of a large lot of Brill cars from around 1910 that started out as Washington Ry & Electric.
Dech-roof double-end car at Benning Yard. Who can tell us which of the two predicessor compnies first owned this car?
Another look at the powerplant coal operation:
Backj toi Benning Yard:
CApital Transit's freight motor pulling a string of coal hopper cars from the interchange with the B & O to the Benning Patomic Edison Power Plant, reached by a branch off the Benning Road streetcar line.
More 1947 or 1948 Capital Transit photos. Someone with a better memory than mine can tell us the locations.
An earlier post showed the inside of the Georgetown plow-pit of the "20" Cabin John Line. Here is an inbound PCC transitioning from overhead wire to conduit aat tht plow-pit:
Two 1947 photos at Union Station:
Hurrah for your sister!
Joe Lieberman. I checked.
Mayy have been Christopher Dodd.
Joe Liebermasn? The one Democratic senator who voted for Bill Clinton's impeachment over lieing before Congress under Oath/
For anyone interested, here is an overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_subway_system
Can't remember his name offhand but he was from Connecticut.
And now?
And just curiouis, which senator?
One of my sisters worked for a senator in the late 1990s. The monorail was still in use then.
I get the distinction and thank you.
Still wondering about that antique electric much-used monorail.
Should be the Capitol Grounds, because you're referring to the grounds around the building, not the grounds of the whole capital city.
Thanks! I'd foegotten the difference.
And so it the tunnel is under the Capitol Grounds, not the Capitol Building itself. Or should it be Capital Grounds when referring to the campus and not the building itself?
I've also done some editing. And make-up.
And while I'm asking questions:
Does the underground monorail used by Senators or Congressmen (forget whch) still exist?
I first encountered Washington streetcars in 1949 when I was visiting my sister there as a high school graduation present. That summer they were building the underground passages at Dupont Circle, two for streetcars and another for motor traffic, and had built temporary tracks above ground around the edge of the circle. Last I knew they still had not found a use for those old streetcar tunnels. Later I was working in Washington for Traffic World magazine when I rode the last of the cars. I have been asked what happened when snowfalls covered the tracks with underground conduits and they couldn't spread salt on the streets. They substituted bus service, and not very well. I remember catching a bus on F Street one snowy day when they had been substituted for the Mount Pleasant streetcar line. The bus was slipping and sliding all over, trying to drive on the tracks down the middle of the street to stop at the safety islands. Plus the fact that they didn't have enough extra buses available for full service.
By the way, it was CapitAl Transit, with an "A"--the capitOl is the building. Sorry, I am a retired editor.
For Thasnksgiving Day, the first at the mouth of the tunnel under the Capitol:
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