Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[camiller]

1/2682022 Railroad

Today’s ride was on the W&OD trail. What an appropriate place to ride on a day we needed railroads since the W&OD trail is a Rail Trail. the W&OD trail is 45 miles long and is built on the railway originally used by trains that ran along the right-of-way from 1859 until 1968. The heyday of the W&OD came early in the 20th Century, when it provided service three times daily from Alexandria to Falls Church, Leesburg and Purcellville, with stops at such hamlets as Dunn Loring, Hunter Station and Paeonian Springs. The first segment of the W&OD Trail was opened in 1974 within the City of Falls Church. The trail was built in sections until its completion to Purcellville in 1988.

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[Judd]

1/28/2021 Railway

My bike in the tracks near the power plant in Alexandria that will someday become a linear park and trail.

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[Indiana]

1/26/2022 Railway
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Love, Railway & Bicycle

(Also snagged photos of a train-shaped Little Free Library and VRE, Amtrak, and freight trains on these rails alongside the Metropolitan Branch Trail today, but sharing the Love as the official scavenger hunt photo)

[bigredboiler]

1-26 Railway

The train passes over the road, so the photo from back here seemed to be the best to capture it.

Luckily, the main roads were clear enough to get out to the nearest railroad

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[CaseyKane50]

1/26/2022 Railroad

Norfolk and Southern’s ethanol transloading facility
Alexandria, Virginia

[sszibler]

@Judd 214831 wrote:

1/28/2021 Railway

My bike in the tracks near the power plant in Alexandria that will someday become a linear park and trail.

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Once again, frozen fingers and one pixel sized links do not = “dislike”. The new potential trail/park 🌅

[AlanA]

1/26/2022 – Railway

Railway, Light. A train was waiting at the station (not sure if you can really make it out in the picture).

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[Nadine]

1/26/22 railway

There used to be a railroad crossing where the Bluemont caboose is. The old tracks are still there, running under the caboose. They’re visible in the picture if you zoom in. (My bike is too, to the right leaning on the shelter [emoji3][emoji2186])

[HokieBeth]

1/25 Roadway

The big one that takes you from DC to the beltway

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[HokieBeth]

1/26 Traintracks

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[AlanA]

@SusanG1693 214820 wrote:

1/26/2022 Railway
Sunset over the Franconia train tracks
It is silly how much I love trains and train tracks. I think it is a bit of wanderlust and the wondering about where those tracks could take me….

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Have you been to the Golden Spike Tower in North Platte, NE?

It’s a dream come true for train lovers.

[LeftyLaura]

1/26/2022-railway

I give you infinite rails in Herndon.

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[Sophie CW]

1/26/2022 – Railways parallel to Rockville Pike
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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/26/2022 Railroad
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Winter Park, FL train station for the Sunrail railroad.

[Catedrew]

1/26/2022 – Railway

Penrose Station was one of the stops on the Nauck line of the Washington-Virginia Railway Company trolley in Arlington (ca. 1909). This railway line ran diagonally through the community. This met up with the Fort Meyer Branch of the Washington-Alexandria and Falls Church commuter railway that connected the community to Rosslyn, Georgetown, and the District of Columbia. DC trolley cars cut through Penrose along South Fillmore Street and 2nd St. S. to meet up with the line at S. Wayne St. and 2nd St. S. The railway line got paved over, but it is represented in teh Penrose neighborhood sign.

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