Passenger Trains > Washington D.C. Trolley system Map

Does anyone have a map of the 1960s and prior Washington D.C. trolley system that they would be willing to share with me? If anybody has photos, from the era, that would be greatly interesting to me too.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

http://tundria.com/trams/USA/Washington-1958.shtml

Http://www.dctrolley.org/dctrolley map.htm

This website is focused on DC trolleys info.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/24/14 05:36 by WillRan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_Washington,_D.C.

The Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway once connected its namesakes.
Its track between Alexandria and Mount Vernon was removed in early 1930s WPA project to build the current George Washington Memorial Highway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Virginia_trolleys

One unusual feature of the DC streetcar system was that the cars did not use trolley poles and overhead wire inside the District. They used a conduit pickup system that made the streetcar tracks look like a cable car operation. Only when the cars crossed into the suburbs did they use overhead power. At the boundary points, the tracks had "plow pits" where a worker would remove the conduit pickup units and raise the poles , or the plows would be installed and the poles hooked down. Needless to say, this was not a fun job in the winter time or on a rainy day. The only other place in the US where conduit pickup was used was the New York borough of Manhattan, where similar aesthetic objections to overhead wire prevailed. Some New York cars didn't even have poles, making them "un-trolley" cars.