Dec 12, 2014
You Can Now Bring Your Bike On MARC Weekend Trains
Beginning tomorrow, MARC weekend service will have a designated bike car.
$46 million will be set aside to “provide nine round trips on Saturdays and six round trips on Sundays” from this city to our northern neighbor beginning December 7.
May 28, 2011
Homeward Bound III: Stranded in Shady Grove
DCist reader and Flickr pool contributor Andy Jones sent us this set of photos documenting a mass exodus from a delayed Brunswick line MARC train on Friday. All of the MARC trains on the Brunswick line were stopped due to a HAZ MAT situation. After being stalled for more than 90 minutes, a lot of the passengers voluntarily exited the train. We were stopped right by the Shady Grove Metro stop and began crawling under…
Photo by voteprime NBC Washington has a truly ghastly photo of a car impaled by a train crossing gate after it was struck by a Brunswick Line train in Rockville last night. According to the report, 25-year-old Cemile Valencia was stuck on the crossing when the train passed through; despite efforts to force the car in front of her forward, she wasn’t able to drive off the tracks in time. The Wheaton resident sustained…