If you haven’t gotten a chance to look at D.C.’s newest tourist spot, be sure to get to the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan metrorail station today before the bulk of the destroyed train cars will probably be carted away this weekend. As has been previously reported, although WMATA has put up a blue tarp to shield commuters from the splintered mess, from the mezzanine, you can see the whole scene of disaster.

Seeing such destruction set against the Utopian-futuristic concrete vaults of the station is an odd sight, and when DCist left the station to catch a 90 bus, we were amazed by the number of people snapping photos or just standing around looking at the mess saying “Jesus Christ” or “How the hell did that train car get on top of the other?” We feel sort of sorry for the WMATA transit police guarding the trains. They seem that they could double as museum security guards with all the tourists mulling about looking past them at the work of accidental transit art down on the tracks. Check out the Post’s Woodley park crash photo gallery.

UPDATE: When DCist went through the station this morning, we noticed that a majority of the mess has been cleared. Be aware that some Red Line trains are running express skipping Woodley Park, which is something that WMATA has not communicated. A tip to WMATA personnel at the station: tourists can be easily confused and locals can get crabby. Instead of joking around with your workmates on the platform (like you were this morning), why don’t you alert passengers that some trains passing through the station won’t be stopping. DCist had to inform people on the platform that some trains would be running express because we got a comment yesterday saying that was indeed the case.

Also, since most people don’t know the location of the Maryland terminal stations, Shady Grove and Glenmont, you can’t assume that people, espeically in a hotel district like Woodley Park, are going to know that a train going to Glenmont is going through downtown. Single-tracking adds to this confusion.