Talk:Northern Virginia trolleys: Difference between revisions

 

A few points of possible interest: The hotel at the NW corner of 123 and Main Street (referenced immediately above), I understand, was disassembled and re-assembled at the location roughly where the Bob Evans now stands on 123, about 1/4 mile north of I-66. The building became the head administrative building for Flint Hill Prep School from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the 1980s, that same building was moved again about 1/4 mile north to its present location on the new Flint Hill Prep School campus on Jermantown Road -- it's the old yellow-painted brick building. Also, until roughly 1970, there was a railroad trussel bridge over one fork of the Accotink Creek -- this would be in the area between present-day Center Street, Railroad Avenue, and Springmann Drive in Fairfax City. It's my understanding that the trussel bridge was torn down about 1970 -- I'm guessing that's because it was seen as a hazard to children playing on it. I remember in my childhood in the 1970s playing in the area where Rust Field development now is and we would occasionally find rusted railroad ties there -- this would be in Rust Field near Springmann Drive. The trolley line went right between the two sections of Center Street -- it's still visibly raised up between the two sections of Center Street. I'm guessing the trolley line must have gone right down present day Farr Avenue, and on between the two parts of Orchard Street in Fairfax City. Tony Coughlan, January 15, 2011. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.192.215.233|72.192.215.233]] ([[User talk:72.192.215.233|talk]]) 03:44, 16 January 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->