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Eckington & Soldiers' Home Railway


Luke_Wilbur

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The first electric car in Washington, D.C. operated on the Eckington & Soldiers' Home Railway in 1888. View is at the city terminus of the line at Seventh Street and New York Avenue, NW.

 

Catalog #: 180098, Accession #: 21478

Currently on display

From the Smithsonian Collection

Eckington_Railway.jpeg

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