#Potomac Yard

[20th-century-railroading]

RF&P power awaits a call at Potomac Yard. Note the C&O geep to the right. C&O used trackage rights on the Southern to access Pot Yard. June 25, 1961

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Potomac Yard to Huntington

[isamjensen]

What makes me happy? Metro. ❤️

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Negotiations continue to happen in secret across the country, all without the public seeing or hearing about it

This is not going to shock anyone. Sports owners hate when their plans are released and looked at intensively by anyone. Have you ever tried to read one of them? Try taking a look at the “Potomac Yard Economic and Fiscal Impact Study” from the failed Capitals/Wizards to Alexandria, Virginia proposal. The agreements are nearly impossible to read and understand unless you read these types of…

[robpegoraro]

City-sized arenas belong in city centers

The Capitals and the Wizards may not win another championship anytime soon, but they will continue playing their home games where they should: in the downtown arena they’ve called home since 1997 as first the MCI Center, then the Verizon Center, followed by the resulting nickname of the Phone Booth, and now Capital One Arena. That’s the best possible resolution of an interlude in which…

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They’re gonna tear down my go-to Barnes & Noble for this 😑

[imkrisyoung]

The brand spanking new Potomac Yard Metrorail Station on the Blue and Yellow Lines (WMATA)!

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Itchy & Scratchy at Potomac Yard Metro • 11x14 (2023)

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May 11, 2022

Washington, DC

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[20th-century-railroading]

A Whole Lot of Variety by Don Kalkman Via Flickr: Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac GP40 123 was departing what remained of Potomac yard in 1992 with train Z411 and some Conrail power, It was passing a tied down NS SD60 leading a R403 train waiting for a NS crew for forwarding south.

Today, the motive power is all gone and this once busy yard is now a shopping center.

July 12, 1992

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Lights in the Sky, Lights on the Ground

Composite

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Potomac Yards - Summer 2023 - Alexandria, VA

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WMATA anuncia la apertura de la estación Potomac Yard en mayo 2023

WMATA anuncia la apertura de la estación Potomac Yard en mayo 2023

Traducido por Luis R Castellanos de publicación en ALXnow WMATA dice que el nuevo objetivo es abrir la estación de metro en Potomac Yard en mayo de 2023, más de un año completo después de que la estación estaba originalmente programada para abrir. El anuncio se produce después de que un retraso este otoño fijó la apertura de la estación para una fecha imprecisa de “2023”. Si bien la estación ha…

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On May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took to the skies of New York almost entirely unknown, and 33½ hours later landed in Paris the most famous man in the world, the first to fly solo across the Atlantic.

A crowd of 150,000 people greeted him there, causing the biggest traffic jam in France's history. They dragged him from the cockpit of The Spirit of Saint Louis and paraded him around on their shoulders for more than half an hour, while others stripped the plane bare of souvenirs. After patching it up again, he flew to Belgium and then London, where similar scenes unfolded and he was taken first to visit the Prime Minister and then King George V, who awarded him the Air Force Cross.

Then the President of the US sent a navy cruiser to pick him up and take him back home to America, a fleet of warships escorting him up the Potomac River to the Washington Navy Yard, where President Calvin Coolidge awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. From there back home to New York on June 13, where a ticker tape parade awaited him like few others and 4 million people turned out to see him.

It certainly was a busy old month for Charley Lindbergh, Time Magazine's first ever 'Man of The Year".

The winner of the 1930 Best Woman Aviator of the Year Award, Elinor Smith Sullivan, said that before Lindbergh's flight:

"People seemed to think we [aviators] were from outer space or something. But after Charles Lindbergh's flight, we could do no wrong. It's hard to describe the impact Lindbergh had on people. Even the first walk on the moon doesn't come close. The twenties was such an innocent time, and people were still so religious—I think they felt like this man was sent by God to do this."