The view from the path below shows not only wood but also steel serves as support for the Rock Creek trestle.

Link to older pic: 1977

Platforms echo those of the B&O's bridge. These allow sightseers to step out of the way of hurried bikers rather than passing trains.

Link to older pic: 1942

There's a method to this madness, I think.

No tricks from the Rock Creek bridge, instead lots of railfan treats.

Next up is the Jones Mill Road crossing. I'm guessing in a past century someone named Jones had a mill along Rock Creek, but I've not found any historical references, other than street names of course.

This survivor appears to have been the post of a RR crossbuck.

A straight, level path through a forest... you know what used to be here.

A B&O standard-issue stone culvert now carries the trail.

Concrete boxes with a vent are found in many places along B&O routes; often they house electrical equipment. For some reason, this relic has not been removed.

Considering the type of traffic that once passed this way, a five ton weight limit seems ultra-conservative...

...especially when the B&O's Georgetown Branch Bridge #3 remains on duty.

Bridge #1 would likely have been a no-longer-extant structure at Brookville Road, and #2 the Rock Creek trestle.

Though the branch was never wider than single-track in this area, the stone work shows provisions were made for more.

Pedal-to-the-metal Connecticut Avenue drivers no longer need worry about a B&O train blocking their way, but the B&O tracks survive. Before 1935, another set of tracks extended perpendicular to these.

The Sunoco gas station occupies the carbarn site of the Chevy Chase Lake & Kensington Railway, a trolley line that opened in 1895 and ran north (to the right in this view) along Connecticut Avenue for about 3 miles to Kensington. Later, the line was leased to Capital Traction company, an amalgamation of several DC-area streetcar lines, but abandoned in 1935.

Links to older pics: ~1900 looks south along Connecticut Avenue, carbarn at center-right, ~1921 north along Connecticut Avenue, 1948 south, 1983