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Rail Photo of the Month: April 2025

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Photos of the Month are back following parental leave here at Oren’s Transit Page headquarters!  

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Location: Shady Grove Station, Derwood, MD
Operator of Vehicle: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Date of Photo: January 15, 2024

The Shady Grove terminal of the Red Line held a number of “superlatives” prior to the opening of the Silver Line in 2014 and its extension to Ashburn in 2022.  Shady Grove was the station furthest from the Washington Monument (as the crow flies), as it lies over 18 miles away.  The station is still the northernmost on the entire Metrorail system, and it isn’t a particularly close competition.  With most of the stations being at least 2 miles apart from each other from Friendship Heights out to Shady Grove, there are many opportunities to see trains reach their maximum speed of 75 MPH along this section of the Red Line.  Although the Breda rail cars, such as the one photographed here, are over 40 years old and were rehabbed about 20 years ago, they still reach this top speed while maintaining a smooth ride.  

For more photos of the WMATA Breda Rehab cars, please click here.  

Rail Photo of the Month: November 2018

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Location: Friendship Heights Station, Washington, DC
Operator of Vehicle: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Date of Photo: August 30, 2004

This website rarely delves in to current events that aren’t transit related.  However, in thinking what photo to feature this month, my current need for a “comfort image” (think comfort food but in this case it is transit photography) as a result of current events in the wider world won out, and I am opting to feature a photo from my “home station” for much of my childhood.  The Friendship Heights station is somewhat unique in that it has entrances in both the District of Columbia and in Maryland.  When I was in high school, I would enter the station each morning in Maryland, cross in to DC to board my train, and then find myself back in Maryland moments after the train left the station.  Perhaps if you visit this site frequently, you find something comforting about being back at a specific train station or on board a specific bus route, especially if it has been awhile since you had the opportunity to use it.  For me, there is something that just seems “right” as I enter the Friendship Heights station and await a train of “legacy” cars to whisk me away to my destination.  Then once I board that train it is straight to the front to look out the front “railfan window” as I have done since I was a child.

Is there a transit experience similar to this one for me that evokes the same feelings for yourself?  Let me know by sharing it in the comments below!

For more photos of the WMATA Breda Rehabs, please click here.