Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:11:13 -0600
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: early times in Washington
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I remember O. Roy Chalk and Capital Transit.  I believe Bob Short owned
D.C. Transit for a time.  He's t he one who leveraged everything to buy
the Washington Senators and then left town for Arlington, TX when the
notes came due (after selling off a bunch of players).  I imagine the
Trolleys provided some of the capital for his Senators deal.  --Tom Haughey

dicconf wrote:

>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
>