Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 71

On Tuesday, we posted our seventy-first photo challenge to see how well you knew Metro. I took photos of five Metro stations. Here are the answers. How well did you do?

This week, we got 71 guesses. 45 got all five. Great work to our victors!

The first image shows a view from the eastbound platform at West Falls Church. The main clue here is the center track. Only two stations have three tracks: West Falls Church and National Airport.

You can tell there are three tracks a few ways. First, the track opening in the foreground is too narrow for two tracks, so the fact that the single track has platform faces on both sides indicates it’s a center track.

Secondly, in the upper left corner, you can see an orange strip map with an arrow pointing to a track that’s out of frame.

Sixty-three knew this one.

The second picture shows a motorist’s-eye view of Prince George’s Plaza. You should have been able too narrow this down easily because very few outdoor stations have side platforms. Of those that do, Eisenhower Avenue and West Hyattsville are elevated, unlike this station. And Arlington Cemetery and Cheverly don’t go underground at either end.

The other clue was the perspective. Which station has a place you can get this view from? Only Prince George’s Plaza, where the parking deck towers over the station. This picture was taken from the top level of the garage, 50 or 60 feet above the tracks.

Fifty-nine got this one right.

The third image shows a slice of Anacostia through the open doors of a #newtrain. The Anacostia station is one of a few stations with unique architecture. Here, the underground station doesn’t have a soaring vault. Instead, mini-vaults run perpendicular to the tracks.

Sixty-five got this one correct.

The fourth image shows a pair of fare machines at the Florida Avenue end of NoMa station. The main clues here are the canopy type (Gull II) and the leaf sculpture at center-right.

NoMa is one of three stations (along with Morgan Boulevard and Largo) that have the Gull II canopy. These stations were all opened in 2004. The station features art called “Journeys” of which the leaf is part. The Metropolitan Branch Trail is also just visible at top (behind the railing).

Fifty-nine figured this one out.

The final image shows the inbound MARC platform and the Red Line station at Rockville. Most of you figured out that this was a station with commuter rail connections. I took the picture from an Amtrak train stopped in the station. The platform at lower left is clearly not a Metro platform because it is at track level.

This could only be Rockville, especially given the “General Peak” canopy. Greenbelt also has a similar canopy, but it lacks tall buildings in the vicinity and at Greenbelt, the commuter rail platforms are high platforms, not low, track-level platforms. College Park has the same canopy type as well, but the MARC platforms there are very small, with no structural canopy, and the Metro platform is at a much higher elevation.

Fifty-three came to the correct conclusion.

Next week, we’ll have five more photos for you to identify. Thanks for playing!

Information about contest rules, submission guidelines, and a leaderboard is available at http://ggwash.org/whichwmata.