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.
That definitely is New York Avenue, with the Washington Building on the left where I used to work and the Treasury Building beyond.
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
Dave,
I am pretty sure that is the US Treasury Building in the back and that would make it 15th and New York Ave.
Steve
Richard Allman agrees:
I see the Treasury Building in the left background so I suspect it is New York Avenue @ 15th Street where the WB&A cars turned back. I think in the right background the White House is visible.
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.
https://thehistorybandits.com/2015/02/06/the-watergates-of-washington/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWzQeAwlehU&t=1h1s
From Mike:
Water Gate concert barge in 1935, Arlington Memorial Bridge practically invisible
https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/26900/26984v.jpg
http://mallhistory.org/items/show/187
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/image?id=mdp.39015004581826;seq=42;size=200;rotation=0
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:
