Crossing River Rd., (May 1973)
B&O EMD GP9 6589 (blt. 1958) & caboose C-2900 heading East toward downtown Bethesda. Lots of neat things in this photo. WDCA TV 20 is in the background. When the studio was built, they requested that the train not blow its horn so as not to disturb the broadcasting. The Restaurant is "JR Hot Shoppes", a local DC institution. The marquee reads "HAPPINESS IS EATING HERE". Behind the photographer is a large Marriott (nee Hot Shoppes) warehouse facility. The yellow sign in the center of the pic reads "Marriott Corporation, 5181 River Road". The two lights facing the photographer to the left of the stop sign are warning drivers on Landy Ln. The bottom one lights up and reads "NO RIGHT TURN". It is lit in this photo. And, my favorite gem, the stop sign has a bumper sticker which reads NIXON on it.
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on 2016-Mar-17 18:12:17 Tom Kalbacher said Just south of here was where we had dug a cave on RR property which they later dynamited and near where we hunted for the Kenwood queer who was so named for the little boy he sodomized and murdered on the tracks just North of here in the 60s and was never caught -
on 2018-Jan-20 22:38:15 Bob Farrell said And right next to Ch 20 WDCA was out C&P Garage, the red brick building, where I worked in '64. I used to walk those track to work.
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on 2021-Dec-20 03:03:08 rich schaffer said well, i can tell you first hand that in 1970 the train was blowing for the crossing at River Road. i was part of the weekly rotation of kids on Romper Room and the train went by daily, the engineer blew his horn, and i jumped out of my seat and scrambled to find a window to see it go by!!! every day for the whole week! i wasnt a "good bee" and Ms Ann wasnt happy :)