Baltimore and Washington Transit Company

The Baltimore and Washington Transit Company was incorporated in Maryland in the 1890s to build an interurban between Baltimore and Washington,Fact|date=May 2007 and was authorized to enter Washington to a junction with the Brightwood Railway on June 8, 1896.Fact|date=June 2008 The Brightwood's branch to Takoma ran from its main line on Georgia Avenue east on Butternut Street to Fourth Street Northwest, where the B&W began, running via Fourth Street, Aspen Street, and Laurel Street, and to the Glen Sligo Hotel and Wildwood Resort in Maryland via Carroll Avenue, Ethan Allen Avenue, and Elm Avenue.Fact|date=May 2007 Transfers were given between the Brightwood and the B&W. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=xOJrJdDO8CIC American Street Railway Investments] , pubilshed by the Street Railway Journal, 1904, p. 33]

An extension southwest along Third Street Northwest and Kennedy Street to the end of Capital Traction's Fourteenth Street Line at Colorado Avenue was authorized on May 29, 1908. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=95-yY4qg7isC&dq=%22kennedy+street%22+%22washington+transit&q=%22kennedy+street%22&pgis=1#search Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia] , Year Ended June 30, 1909, Volume 1, p. vi] On March 4, 1914, the Maryland General Assembly changed the name to the Washington and Maryland Railway,Fact|date=June 2008 and on May 2, 1918, it was leased by Capital Traction as the Washington and Maryland Line. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ts6_kdU7w9EC&dq=%22washington+%26+maryland+railway%22+1918&q=%22date+of+contract%2C+February+20%2C+1918&pgis=1#search House Documents Volume 8] , December 2, 1918-March 4, 1919, p. 21]

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