DDOT recently posted a set of historic photographs showing DC’s pre-1962 streetcars.

14th and C, SW

14th Street, NW

Thomas Circle

3rd and H, NE

14th and C, SW

15th and Pennsylvania, NW

Willard Hotel

Wisconsin Avenue, Georgetown

In the next few days, we’ll be looking at DC’s streetcar plans in some more detail, from power sources to fares.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.