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The DC Streetcar is a surface streetcar network in Washington, D.C. that consists of a single line running 2.2 miles (3.5 km) in mixed traffic along H Street and Benning Road in the city's Northeast quadrant. The streetcars are the first to run in the District of Columbia since the dismantling of the previous streetcar system in 1962.
Streetcar tracks and conduit near an M Street door of the Georgetown Car Barn in 2018 A 2022 photograph of the streetcar tracks and their underground-power-line slot that the Metropolitan Railroad installed on P Street NW during the 1890s. Much of the track in Washington, D.C., was removed and sold for scrap.
The H Street/Benning Road Line is a currently operating line of DC Streetcar.It has eight stations and began operation on February 27, 2016. The 2.4-mile (3.9 km) line runs along H Street NE and Benning Road NE in Washington, D.C. [1] In September 2016 service was increased from six days a week to seven, and with shorter 12-minute headways.
The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification system. The vast majority of tram systems use 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge .
This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...
Interior of a DC Streetcar vehicle constructed in 2006–7 for use on the Anacostia Line. The Anacostia Line is a partially constructed line of the DC Streetcar, never put into service, intended to connect the Anacostia neighborhood with Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling. Construction occurred in 2009 and 2010, but was terminated before the line ...
Eventually they were all owned or leased by DC Transit (see Streetcars in Washington, D.C.). Unlike the Virginia lines, the combined Washington and Maryland lines were scheduled as a single system. A combination of the rise of the automobile, various economic downturns and bustitution eventually spelled the end of streetcars in southern Maryland.
Beginning in 1858, New York City businessmen began trying to bring streetcar service to Washington, D.C., where transit consisted of horse-drawn wagons on several lines. On May 17, 1862, the United States Congress enacted legislation that incorporated the first Washington streetcar compan - the ashington and Georgetown Railroad (W&GRC). [ 1 ]