59th Anniversary: End of street car service

100 years of street car operations in Washington, D.C. came to a close 59 years ago today, on January 28, 1962. The image below is one of our favorites; in a symbolic gesture of the end of an era, a motorman shakes the hand of a bus driver, handing off the baton for the next generation of public transit in the Nation's capital.
DC Transit 766, the street car seen on the left, survives in the Trolley Museum collection and is currently undergoing restoration. You can read more about this historic car on our website, http://dctrolley.org.

DC Transit 766, currently undergoing restoration at the National Capital Trolley Museum as Capital Traction Company 27, is seen here with a DC Transit bus at Rock Creek Loop on January 28, 1962.

this article was updated on 1/28/22