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At 122, the DC’s last streetcar trestle faces an uncertain future


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#1 Sloan

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Posted 14 August 2017 - 07:34 AM

 

 

After more than five decades, unused and neglected, the District’s last remaining streetcar trestle is crumbling. Sections of the steel supports have rusted away. Wooden ties have fallen. And its structural condition is so poor that the National Park Service closed a trail directly underneath it last August.

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I have lamented on this forum and on a DC-based blog that this right-of-way could be an untapped treasure for both commuters and tourists.  Using Gomaco replica double truck Birneys the line could make a useful corridor for bringing government workers and Georgetown University faculty to work.  Tourists would, in off-peak, enjoy spectacular views of the Potomac River.  Destroying the old infrastructure, rather than bringing it up to modern standards, would be a terrible waste!   :o  Sloan

 

 






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