Bill.N. Wrote:
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> @Joke Insurance-I am not aware of any plans to
> extend the trolley line to Burke. It would be a
> circuitous route though as Burke is southeast of
> Fairfax. If you lived in Burke it would probably
> have been faster to take a Southern Railway train
> into DC by way of Alexandria.
>
> A more likely extension would have been to run the
> line to Fairfax Station, which was due south of
> Fairfax, but I have not read anything on that
> either. There was not much potential traffic to
> tap, and you'd be competing against the well
> funded Southern Railway for traffic. At one point
> though there seems to have been some thought about
> extending the trolley line west from Vienna.
> There was a charter issued for the Washington &
> Winchester around the time the extension of the
> WA&FC line to Fairfax was being built. Remember
> at that point what we now know as the Washington &
> Old Dominion was a Southern Railway branch line
> running from Alexandria to Round Hill. The Great
> Falls & Old Dominion took it over in 1912 and
> re-oriented it to a line running from Loudoun to
> Georgetown with the segment to Alexandria becoming
> a branch line.
Washington & Winchester, are you sure?
Don't you mean the Winchester and Potomac Railroad (W&P)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_and_Potomac_Railroad