daveklepperOne more scanned and reopaired:
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Never too old to have a happy childhood!
One more scanned and reopaired:
And more:
Mure:
The last photo illustrates one reason why many cities with excellent streetcar systems were still pro-bus. The person waiting to board 1344 is only a foot or so away from the Ford in the left lane. Pedestrian accidents were common, and safety islands only helped a little - in cities that still have them they frequently get struck by vehicles.
And another:
So many of those could be "Anytown U.S.A." and if we had our way they still would be!
Same me, different spelling!
And one more:
recently scanned:
Hello Mr. Klepper,
On 3/19/20, Jack May <jackmay135@gmail.com> wrote:> Nice work. Thanks.>> We were in Georgetown on M Street on February 29, visiting our older> grandson, who's a freshman at the university. We drove around the> neighborhood and remembered exactly where the route 20 cars went on O> and P Streets. The fact that the tracks are still there helped! The> old DC Transit headquarters (ex Capital Traction) is still extant, and> it is now a Georgetown University building, called the Georgetown Car> Barn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Car_Barn>> By the way, the campus is now closed because of COVID-19 and this past> weekend Alex packed up and returned home to Manhattan by Amtrak.>> Jack>> Here are views from Google Maps showing the tracks today. They do add> some ambience to the area, but then, I'm prejudiced.
The p;hoto I am posring now is not directly fron Google Maps but could be at a different time with different weaher conditiohs at the same location as one of their photos. Oudtside of Londoh, is there any other place in the World where condouit streetcar track can sstill be seen?
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:
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:
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.
Henry Desutsch supplied this 1960 postcard photo of Union Station with PCCs in front:
And here is another at the Junction of the lines to Kennelworth and Seat Pleasant
Another rainy-day picture. Also 701 was single-ended, previous photo, 731 remained double-end:
Thanks!
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.
Yes, it was raining.
With blind-side doors, 701 obviously was once a double-end car. I suspect this view is on 14th Street.
From Mike:
Water Gate concert barge in 1935, Arlington Memorial Bridge practically invisible
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.
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:
Richard Allman agrees:
Dave,
Steve
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
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