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Street Cars of Washington D.C. Kenneth C Springirth Soft cover
Street Cars of Washington D.C. Kenneth C Springirth
Street Cars of Washington
Kenneth C. Springirth
Soft Cover
128 Pages
Copyright 2016
Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Introduction 7
Chapter 1Capital Transit Company11
Chapter 2DC Transit System19
Chapter 3Routes 10/12 Kenilworth/Seat Pleasant23
Chapter 4Route 20 Cabin John29
Chapter 5Route 30 Friendship Heights39
Chapter 6Routes 40/42 Lincoln Park/13th & D St.49
Chapter 7 Routes 50/54 Bureau of Engraving/Navy Yard59
Chapter 8 Route 60 Eleventh St.-6th Pennsylvania Ave.71
Chapter 9Routes 70/72/74 Georgia Ave.-7th St.73
Chapter 10Route 80 N. Capital St.87
Chapter 11Route 82 Branchville95
Chapter 12Routes 90/92 New Jersey Ave.-17th105
Pennsylvania Ave./Florida Ave.-Navy Yard
Chapter 13DC Streetcar H St.-Benning Rd.113
Chapter 14National Capital Trolley Museum125
On the Back Cover
Street Cars of Washington D.C. is a photographic essay of the history of the well kept modern street car system that provided frequent transit service to much of our nation's capital up to its closure in January, 1962. Washington D.C. was the first North American city to operate its entire base service by Presidents' Conference Committee (PCC) cars. Washington D.C. had the fifth largest PCC car fleet in North America. While these cars had poles for overhead wire operation, they were the only PCC cars in the world equipped with plows for conduit operation. Washington D.C. PCC cars, all built by St. Louis Car Company, were about two foot shorter in length or one less window than other PCC cars, because of short clearances in car house transfer tables. The Silver Sightseer in Washington D.C. was the world's first air conditioned street car. Fifty four years later in February 2016, street cars have returned to Washington D.C. All of this has been included in Street Cars of Washington D.C.
Kenneth C. Springirth, the author of 30 books on railroads and trolley car lines, has an interest in rail history as his father was a street car motorman in Philadelphia, and his grandfather was a street car motorman in Washington D.C. A native of Philadelphia, he commuted to Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) in Philadelphia by trolley car, subway, and sometimes commuter rail graduating in 1962.
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