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On this day in 1962, in Washington, DC....
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two nostalgic reminders of the past....Glen Echo Amusement Park and streetcars......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21288

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mt. Ranier transfer station; note bus on the left......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21247

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Branchville Loop, 1957......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21267

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was now but mere hours until the last streetcars in Washington pulled into the barn for the last time when this nostalgic photo was taken, nearly 60 years ago.

The classic autos date this scene as much as PCC #1512.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?46021

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Random photos at Union Station......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21281

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21282

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21238

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21278

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "streetcars" of today's Washington.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Streetcar
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another run is begun (1955).......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?94123

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sixty years ago, classic scenes like this one were commonplace in Washington......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21271

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Friendship Heights, 1959...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21252

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21270

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Georgia & Alaska, 1958......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21251

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brookland Station (fan trip)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?21221

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Historic (conduit) tracks to the past......

www.dcpreservation.org/endangered_place/georgetown-streetcar-tracks


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The streetcar era begins in Washington......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Georgetown_Railroad
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Capital Traction Company.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Traction_Company
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The magnificent and historic Georgetown car barn*, a proud relic of a long-ago age...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Car_Barn

*Note that this facility once had an elevator for streetcars; TARS multi-level car house in Yonkers also utilized an elevator for the cars.

Ditto the 56th St. depot in Manhattan.......
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