Capital Transit: Cabin John Line

Photographs by R. Hill

This page contains pictures taken of the Cabin John line on January 9, 1960, a few days after service was ended by D.C. Transit. Hill and a companion walked the line starting from Georgetown in Washington, DC, and proceeding into Maryland. Of the 35 pictures taken on that day, I have 34, plus one other one taken in the late 1950's. All were numbered by Hill from 1 to 36.

The images on this page have been extremely highly compressed. It will probably take a minute or two to download over a modem line. Please click on any image to see a larger and less compressed version, usually 35 to 45 kilobytes in size. (I don't have the web site space to provide really large images.)

I have placed these pictures here to make them available, and to try and confirm my efforts at determining the locations. Hill didn't often identify photo locations on the back of the prints. I have used two resources to help identify these locations, Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Washington District of Columbia, Volume 3, 1960 and various editions of Boyd's City Directory of the District of Columbia .

If anyone recognizes who came along to take pictures that day, I'd love to know who it was. He's in photographs 6, 11, 17, and 22.

Finally, if anyone has pictures of CTCo 099 as it was being scrapped on the Falls Barn siding, I'd love to hear about it. I'm hoping any such pictures could give me details on the underframe framing of 099, for use in a HO scale model I'm building of that car.

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Photograph	Number	Location and Hill's Notes (in quotes)
	1.	36^th & N St. NW
	2.	Prospect Ave. between 35^th & 36^th St. NW
	3.	Prospect Ave. & 37^th St. NW
	4.	Georgetown University
	5.	Georgetown University
	6.	Georgetown University
	8.	West end of Georgetown University
	9.	Canal & Foxhall Rd. NW
	10.	Falls siding (former site of Falls Barn)
	11.	Falls siding (former site of Falls Barn)
	12.	Arizona Ave. NW/Foundry Branch trestle
	13.	Farm west of MacArthur Blvd. & Foxhall Rd. NW, in back of Harrison School.
	14.	Farm west of MacArthur Blvd. & Foxhall Rd. NW, in back of Harrison School.
	15.	Farm west of MacArthur Blvd. & Foxhall Rd. NW, in back of Harrison School.
	16.	Bridge no. 3, near Clark Pl. NW (?)
	17.	Near Clark Pl. NW. About Stop 6.
	18.	Near Clark Pl. & Brewer Pl. NW
	19.	Georgetown Reservior, looking southeast
	20.	East of Reservior Rd. NW
	21.	East of Reservior Rd. NW. "Looking toward stop ten."
	22.	Reservior Rd. NW bridge. Stop 10. "Stop ten - may favorite. You can't make out the waterfall. That crane (to left of telegraph pole) is widening the street - which, incidentally, leads to MacArthur Boulevard less than a block from the MacArthur Theatre."
	23.	Reservior Rd. NW bridge. Stop 10.
	24.	Reservior Rd. NW bridge. Stop 10.
	25.	Reservior Rd. NW bridge. "Under the bridge at stop ten. That's the boat house at the right."
	26.	Chain Bridge Rd. NW (?)
	27.	Weaver Pl. NW. Stop 15.
	28.	On Sherrier Pl. NW
	29.	Dalecarlia. "Approaching the water works."
	30.	Dalecarlia. "The Dalecarlia station - but hey! what's the monster building looming up?"
	31.	District Line. "The D.C. line at last!"
	32.	Little Falls Branch trestle, south of Brookmont. "Approaching brookmont."
	33.	Little Falls. "Tractor tracks."
	34.	Little Falls pumping station. "The old and the new."
	35.	Brookmont
	36.	Sycamore store. "Late 1950's" "(In case this is driving you crazy because you know perfectly well that you were out of film by now and the Sycamore Store didn't carry film, this was found with another group of pictures taken some time before.)"