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.