The Metropolitan Railroad was the second streetcar company to operate in Washington, D.C. It was incorporated in 1864, two years after the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, and began with cars that ran from the US Capitol Building to the War Department and along H Street NW in downtown. The first cars were pulled by two horses, but in 1865 the company switched to smaller cars pulled by one horse. Metropolitan Railroad added lines on 9th Street NW, on 4th Street SW/SE, along Connecticut Avenue to Dupont Circle, to Georgetown, to Mt. Pleasant and north along Georgia Avenue. In the 1890s it was purchased by the Washington Traction and Electric Company and on February 4, 1902, became a part of the Washington Railway and Electric Company. [Wikipedia.com]

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