National Capital Trolley Museum

Recalling the heyday of Washington as a Street Car Capital, Capital Transit is a comprehensive history of the Capital Transit and D.C. Transit era. From the merger of Capital Traction Co. and Washington Railway & Electric in 1933 to form Capital Transit, the transformation of the system into the most modern in the Nation, the apogee of the street railway as Washington went to war and the long decline of the late 1950s culminating in that cold, sad January day in 1962 when the last car entered Navy Yard Car House, Capital Transit is a nostalgic look back at a Washington that vanished with "the cars."

Traction History on the Grand Scale, Capital Transit features:

: • large format (A4) hardcover; • 444 pages, coated paper; • 290 black and white photos, most never published before; • 33 color photos, none published before; • 22 track and route maps; • comprehensive year-to-year operational/corporate history; • 70-page equipment roster, drawings of major car classes

Capital Transit is published by the National Capital Trolley Museum with proceeds going to the Museum’s Endowment Fund to ensure fulfillment of its mission.

YOU MAY ORDER:

Send your check or money order, payable to:
"National Capital Trolley Museum"
1313 Bonifant Road
Coleseville, MD 20905-5955

Price: $65.00 per copy (Maryland residents must add sales tax $3.25)
plus $6.50 shipping/handing to US addresses only;
other countries please mail for quote.

August 2007