Capital Transit in Washington, DC

[daveklepper]

More 1947 or 1948 Capital Transit photos.  Someone with a better memory than mine can tell us the locations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[daveklepper]

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.

[daveklepper]

Backj toi Benning Yard:

[daveklepper]

Another look at the powerplant coal operation:

[daveklepper]

Dech-roof double-end car at Benning Yard.  Who can tell us which of the two predicessor compnies first owned this car?

 

[rcdrye]

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.

[daveklepper]

Thanks

[daveklepper]

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:

 

[daveklepper]

Improved over earlier version.  Eastbound PCC to short-turn at Washington Circle, on Pennsylvania Avenue, but where?

[WILLIAM O CRAIG]

That's on Pennsylvania Avenue, looks like just east of the circle.  New York Avenue was not near there.

[daveklepper]

Thanks for the correction, and I'll correct the posting.

However, I  do question "nowhere near," since both are in downtown Washington.

[bmsullivan]

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

http://sluggyjunx.com/rr/gb/

[daveklepper]

Thanks - Todah  -  Shukhran