Layhill in Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Conduit Track Switch and Crossover

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

1. Conduit Track Switch and Crossover Marker

Inscription. D. C. Transit System 1540, shown to the right on the turning loop at 11th and Monroe Streets NW, will soon operate south on 11th Street to east on E Street to south on 9th Street to east on Pennsylvania Avenue. Just east of 7th Street, the car will cross over the westbound track on Pennsylvania into its southern loop eastward along C Street to south on 6th Street to return westward along Pennsylvania Avenue to north on 9th Street. The trackwork before you includes the switch and crossover from Pennsylvania Avenue for this turning loop. The entire route 60 street car line draws its electricity from the underground conduit described in the drawing shown to the left. See a section of this conduit system in Conduit Hall inside the visitor center to your right and learn more about the manner of construction which kept vistas in the Nation's Capital free of overhead wires as shown here with Capital Transit Company 766 passing the Peace Monument on its way west along Pennsylvania Avenue.

Erected by National Capital Trolley Museum.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Railroads & Streetcars.

Location. 39° 5.841′ N, 77° 1.892′ W. Marker is in Silver Spring, Maryland, in Montgomery County. It

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is in Layhill. It can be reached from Bonifant Road west of Carona Drive, on the right when traveling east. Marker is on the grounds of the National Capital Trolley Museum. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1313 Bonifant Road, Silver Spring MD 20905, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies

and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Matthew Henson (approx. 1.4 miles away); The Commonwealth Farm (approx. 1.8 miles away); Khmer Rouge Genocide Memorial (approx. 1.9 miles away); The Holland Red Door Store (approx. 1.9 miles away); Children Growing Up in Montgomery County (approx. 1.9 miles away); African Americans and Quakers in Sandy Spring (approx. 2.1 miles away); The Rachel Carson Greenway (approx. 2.1 miles away); Woodlawn (approx. 2.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Silver Spring.

Also see . . .
1. National Capital Trolley Museum Site. (Submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)
2. National Capital Trolley Museum. Wikipedia page (Submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)

3. National Capital Trolley Museum: 50 Years and Counting!. YouTube video (Submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)

4. Riding the trolley at National Capital Trolley Museum - Washington DC.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

2. Conduit Track Switch and Crossover Marker

YouTube video (Submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.)

National Capital Trolley Museum image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

3. National Capital Trolley Museum

Magic of Meadows Sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

4. Magic of Meadows Sign

Sign is across the parking lot from the Conduit Track Switch and Crossover sign

National Capital Trolley Museum Signs image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

5. National Capital Trolley Museum Signs

Signs along Bonifant Road at the entrance road to the museum

National Capital Trolley Museum Sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 7, 2018

6. National Capital Trolley Museum Sign

Further up the road from the entry point is this sign which reads: National Capital Trolley Museum

See and Ride Streetcars from Six Nations

www.dctrolley.org
301-384-6088

Credits. This page was last revised on February 15, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 375 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on April 7, 2018, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.