The Washington and Glen Echo Railroad

From 1891 to 1900, the Glen Echo Railroad Company, later known as the Washington and Glen Echo Railroad, operated a trolley line through what is now Willard Avenue Park. This line compromised part of a series of interconnecting systems that provided transportation between Washington and a Maryland suburbs during the electric car boom. The Glen Echo line started at a transfer station on Wisconsin Avenue and what is now Willard Avenue, a station it shared with converging lines from Georgetown and Rockville. The track followed the contour of Little Falls Branch and continued across River Road to proposed residential and recreational development at Glen Echo on the Potomac River. Montgomery County Parks Commission, Department of Parks.