Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 89

On Tuesday, we posted our eighty-ninth 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 35 guesses. Nine got all five correct. Great work, Peter K, JamesDCane, Travis Maiers, AlexC, Solomon, PLKDC, Stephen C, dpod, and We Will Crush Peter K!

The first image was fairly easy to solve (and all of you got it right!). It shows the large bowl where the northern escalators emerge at 20th and Q Streets NW, which is the northern entrance of the Dupont Circle station. The rim of the bowl is visible, as are the plantings along either side. Those main clues helped you narrow down the choice. We’ve featured this entrance in week 22, week 33, week 38, week 40, and week 80.

Like all of the other pictures featured in this week’s set, this image has a set of three side-by-side escalators.

The second image shows a view of the platform escalators and inclined elevator at Huntington’s southern entrance. There are two unique features visible here. The first is the inclined elevator, which is one of only a few in the country. The other is the pair of narrow escalators on either side of the regular-width one.

The slanted glass roof is also a clue, though it’s not unique since a similar one exists at West Hyattsville.

Week 12 and week 14 both showcase these features. 29 of you figured it out.

The third picture shows the main exit from Crystal City station. The primary clue here is the “VRE Trains” sign, which directs customers to a doorway just out of frame to the right. The connection to VRE is made by way of the underground Crystal City pedestrian network, which intersects this Metro corridor just prior to the escalators pictured.

There are several VRE connection points to Metro, but only three are underground stations: Union Station, L’Enfant Plaza, and Crystal City. Union Station never has three side-by-side escalators, so it can’t be that station. And while L’Enfant Plaza does have this arrangement, there’s no VRE signage like this nor any electrical lockers in the corridor.

That leaves Crystal City, as 20 of you surmised.

The fourth image was taken in the northernmost mezzanine at Farragut North station. I like the brutalist coffered ceiling, which mirrors the standard waffle vault treatment. Despite the design harmony, this type of mezzanine ceiling is only present at two stations, with the other being Stadium/Armory.

The three side-by-side escalators lead down to the northern end of the platform, taking up most of the platform’s width (which is why escalators are usually just singles or doubles when going to the platform). We featured these escalators from the other side in week 22.

Stadium/Armory also has three escalators like this, however, they descend into the vault through an opening that nearly reaches the top of the vault. The pictured escalators have the lower sloped roof above them, meaning this must be Farragut North.

16 got the gold.

The final image shows a set of three short escalators at Federal Triangle. This is part of the corridor leading from the station’s mezzanine under 12th Street to the portico of the Ariel Rios Building. The station is located under 12th Street, but the street escalators are located about 150’ west. Along this corridor, there’s a short rise that these escalators climb. These are the shortest escalators in the Metro system and are therefore quite distinctive.

15 came to the correct conclusion.

Thanks for playing! We’ll be back August 23rd with another quiz.

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