Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:57:11 -0500 (EST) From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: early times in Washington Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, ronkean at juno.com wrote: > The trolleys stopped in the early 1960s, and they were then serving only > a small area in DC. Earlier, in the 1930s, the trolleys covered a wider > area, even going out to Chevy Chase Lake in Maryland. That lake is long > gone. > > The National Capital Trolley Museum was founded in 1959. > Ironically, DC Transit (as it was then) sold the serviceable electric trolleys to the Yugoslavians (as they were then). Well, that may not be SF, but it sounds like fantasy. -- Dick Eney