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Washington streetcars

Thanks for the kind words and suggestion. I agree with you about the photos you suggested. Unfortunately, I can't use those photos without permission. So the ones I've used are all in the public domain. They're not very good. I'd really like to get some color photos. The Washington streetcars article is very much a work in progress. Any help you can offer is most appreciated. I'm still researching a good deal of it, and I've had to correct some of my own mistakes. I'm also working on some route diagrams. I should have those up in the next week or so. I had hoped by starting the article that others would chime in, but my experience in DC tells me that few people are knowledgable on the subject. Feel free to offer any suggestions. Really. SDC 22:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

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I agree with your preference for citations. You probably know Morris Warren if you are writing about the WB&A Trail and work in Greenbelt. I am on the MD DOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (a governor-appointed advisory committee) and attend all the PG BTAG meetings, and I ask questions of all the park officials. So everything I added about the trail came from officials responsible for building trails--though of course I have seen alot if it as well. I didn't put everything in, such as the fact that Mr. Myers put up a sign saying that the trail will never cross the Patuxent, when the PG side first opened, or other more sensitive items that ought not be discussed here. Regarding the rr itself, an old timer recently told me the story about the rails. Basically, a teenager was playing with a pile of scrap rails in the late 30s or early 40s. He was able to pick up one end, he discovered, as heavy as they were. A few rails rolled down the hill near Glenn Dale hospital. He went to war, and when he came back, he remembered the rails, and checked to see if they were still there. They were, so he used a truck to drag them up the hill, and used them to support the main floor. He sold the house in 1977 to a man who sold the house to me in 1981.

I am a novice on Wikipedia, and I am just guessing that this is the way to return a message.

By the way, if you are able to restore a link I tried to add on the Glenn Dale, Maryland page, that would be nice. The page talked about Glenn Dale Citizens Association and I just wanted to add a link to their web site, but it's a geocities free site, newbies are presumed to be spamming when they add such links.

Best regards Jimtitus 04:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)jimtitus

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Regarding your last edit on the Allegheny Passage, would you please provide a reference for the Hot Metal Bridge ground breaking/celebration, per WP:Cite? Thanks, WVhybrid 01:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work on the Allegheny Passage. One thing I'll say about rocket scientists, you guys sure do know how to write good footnotes! Regards,WVhybrid 06:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Question about Washington streetcars

Do you know when the Belt Railway/A&PR obtained the right to run over the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway on G Street, between Fourth and Ninth Streets Northwest, in order to operate cars between LeDroit Park and the steamboat wharves via Fourth Street, G Street, E Street, Fourteenth Street, etc.? This was probably at the same time as the O/P Streets trackage was abandoned. --NE2 10:55, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Finding information about old streetcar lines, period, is rather difficult. Here's one description I've found, from [1]:

ORIGINAL LINES OF THE ANACOSTIA COMPANY.

Commencing for the eastern terminus of the said road in Hillsdale, D. C., at or near the corner of Nichols Avenue and Howard Avenue, thence in a northeasterly direction about two thousand (2000) feet on said Nichols Avenue; thence in the same direction on Monroe Street (the same being a continuation of said Nichols Avenue), to the south side of the Eastern Branch or Anacostia River at the Navy Yard Bridge; thence in a northwesterly direction across said bridge to Eleventh Street east; thence north on Eleventh Street east to G Street south; thence west on G Street south to Fourth Street east; thence north on Fourth Street east to E Street south; thence west on E Street south to Canal Street; along Canal Street to B Street south; thence on B Street south to Third Street west; thence north on Third Street west to Missouri Avenue; thence along Missouri Avenue to Sixth Street west; thence north on Sixth Street to B Street north; thence west on B Street to Ninth Street west; thence north on Ninth Street to G Street north; thence west on G Street to Eleventh Street west; thence south on Eleventh Street to E Street north; thence east on E Street to Ninth Street west.

(NOTE.—Of the foregoing route from the corner of Four-and-a-half Street and Missouri Avenue to Sixth Street, B Street, and Ninth Street to G Street, the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad operates under the authority of an act of Congress over the tracks laid by the Metropolitan Railroad Company, and on G Street from Ninth to Eleventh Streets by the like authority over tracks laid by the City and Suburban Railway Company.)

Also on M Street south, beginning at the junction with Eleventh Street; thence due west to Water Street.

Also on Second Street west, beginning at the intersection with M Street south; thence due north to intersection with Canal Street.

Also on G Street south, beginning at Eleventh Street east, due east to Seventeenth Street; thence north on Seventeenth Street east to E Street south; thence east on E Street south to Nineteenth Street east. And all other lines of railway and franchises now owned by said Railroad Company, and all extensions it may hereafter acquire in connection with said lines of railway and franchises.

LINES OF THE BELT RAILWAY.

Also the lines acquired by the Belt Railway purchase, beginning for the same on First Street west, at the point of its intersection with Maryland Avenue in front of the Capitol, in Washington City, District of Columbia, and running thence north along said First Street and New Jersey Avenue to G Street north; thence west along G Street to Fourth Street west; thence north along said Fourth Street and said New Jersey Avenue to P Street north; thence west along said P Street to Eleventh Street west; thence south along the said Eleventh Street to E Street north; thence west along said E Street to Fourteenth Street west; thence south along said Fourteenth Street to B Street south; thence eastwardly along said B Street south, to Virginia Avenue southwest; thence eastwardly along the said Virginia Avenue to its intersection with Maryland Avenue, and thence eastwardly along said Maryland Avenue to First Street west, the place of beginning; also along O Street north, between Fourth Street and Eleventh Street west; also beginning at the intersection of Eleventh and Boundary Streets NW., and running thence south along said Eleventh Street to its intersection with the main line at P Street north; also beginning at the intersection of Eleventh and E Streets NW., and running thence east along said E Street to Ninth Street west; thence south along said Ninth Street, a right of way over and the use of the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway Company to Louisiana Avenue, and thence by its own tracks westwardly along said Louisiana Avenue to its intersection with the main lines at Twelfth Street west; thence south on Twelfth Street to B Street south, where it intersects the main line at Twelfth Street; also commencing at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Eleventh Street SW., and running thence south along said Eleventh Street to Water Street, and thence southeastwardly along said Water Street to Seventh Street west, and thence south along said Seventh Street to N Street south; also commencing at the intersection of Ohio Avenue and Fourteenth Street NW., and running thence south along said Fourteenth Street to B Street south. Together with all existing right of extension of said line of railway, if any, conferred upon the Belt Railway Company by existing law, and also all extensions it may hereafter acquire in connection with said existing lines and franchises.

THE CAPITAL RAILWAY COMPANY.

Also, all and singular the railway lines, railway property, and corporate franchisee now owned by the Capital Railway Company within the said District of Columbia, in case, and as soon as, the same shall be acquired by the said party hereto of the first part, and also all extensions it may hereafter acquire in connection with the said existing lines and franchises.

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Interesting article. Could be a good candidate for WP:DYK if you're interested. Can I suggest you don't create section heading simply called 'Biography'? The whole thing is a biography,so could be better subdivided. A few of your recent articles relating to NOAA tend to assume everyone knows American institution abbreviations, which they don't. So can I ask you to expand on organisation titles at first use, please? I also think your articles would benefit from more wikilinking to other subjects...they're a heck of a lot more interesting than most I have to read at WP:NPP. Keep up the good work!

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Oxon Creek

Footnote 3: The Evening Star (Washington D.C.) closed in 1981. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 09:25, 9 February 2019 (UTC)'

Thanks I accidentally put the date I saw it instead of the date of the article.Volcycle (talk) 15:59, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

2. The problem is that Creek has its historical definition of Creek (tidal) which confuses people who have only heard the usual definition. I would prefer two articles, Oxon Creek and Oxon Run, since they are clearly two different things. Googling Oxon Creek and Oxon Run is an excellent way to find how words are used. From the lat/long in footnote 1 and googleEarth, Barnaby Run can only be the creek on the north side of Eastover Shopping Center. Cutting off the last half mile of Oxon Run and adding it to the cove does not make sense. My best guess (I have no evidence) is that in 1892 the area was a marsh heading at Barnaby Run and that later the area was dredged out and filled in. Note that the land north of Eastover is still an inactive landfill. I do know that the Potomac shore was originally marshy and that most of it has been dredged and reshaped. Googling Winkle Doodle gives only Bridge Reports and its map shows that Winkle Doodle means Oxon Run. I could not find Oxon Creek in footnote 5. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 03:52, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

 - I'm planning on writing a separate article for Oxon Run. Barnaby Run is the name of the stream that starts near the Bejamin Stoddart Middle School in Marlow Heights and flows west to the District and then south to the intersection of Galveston and Eastern. At that point it meets with Winkle Doodle Run. South of that, along Eastover, it sometimes called Barnaby and some times Winkle Doodle, but more often Winkle Doodle - not just by doing a google search but also in a search of newspaper articles, but there is obviously some confusion and it's hard to know who is "right". But DDOT repeatedly calls the bridge over it at South Capital the "Winkle Doodle Bridge" so that seems like a local authority. As for cutting off the last half mile of Oxon Run and calling it Oxon Creek- I'm relying on USGS.and an assortment of historic maps, as well as the trail along it which NPS calles the Oxon Creek Trail, but here again there is some confusion. I don't know what you mean by "Winkle Doodle means Oxon Run". Footnote 5 doesn't mention Oxon Creek - as it makes a few mistakes on names (calling Winkle Doodle "Glassmanor Run" for example). The point of footnote 5 is to show a place where Oxon Creek has been called Oxon Run. It's an example of the very confusion in plat Volcycle (talk) 05:37, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

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I'm confused. Are not the things I listed "College Awards"? And thus they are things that should be included? Volcycle (talk) 00:51, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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