Here are the answers to whichWMATA week 35

On Tuesday, we posted our thirty-fifth photo challenge to see how well you know Metro. I took five photos in the Metro system. Here are the answers. How well did you do?

We got 41 guesses this week. An amazing 12 of you got all five. Great work, Alex B, Peter K, dan reed!, Mr. Johnson, K Conaway, Spork!, MZEBE, DAR, Justin…., hftf, Chris H, and Frank IBC!

I snapped the first image on the Wiehle Avenue station’s southern bridge. The main clue here is the freeway below. You can see the six eastbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Airport Access Road. The gambrel roof of the station, which is visible at left, also narrows this down to one of the three new Silver Line stations with that roof type. Thirty-two of you knew this one.

The next image shows the bus loop and upper level platforms at Fort Totten. One clue here is the tall steel beam running along the station. This is part of the bridge structure that holds up the CSX tracks that flank the Metro tracks between Brookland and Silver Spring. Takoma and Silver Spring also have similar beams, but their layouts are different. The bus loop, which extends under the bridge, is the clearest indicator that this is Fort Totten and not Takoma. Another clue that this isn’t Takoma is that the platform continues above the roadway, which is not the case there. Thirty-two guessed correctly.

The third image was taken from Eisenhower Avenue looking north. At center is an inbound Yellow Line train. The tracks that split off here turn west and go into the Alexandria Rail Yard, which is along the Blue Line. These lead tracks allow Yellow Line trains to be put into service without first going to King Street and reversing. The perspective (off to one side of the tracks) also means that this is a side platform station, which considerably narrows the field. Twenty-eight of you got this one.

This picture shows the pedestrian bridge over Viers Mill Road that links Wheaton station to its parking garage and the Wheaton Plaza shopping mall. It’s a fairly distinctive bridge, and there aren’t any others in the Metro system that share its design. Twenty-seven knew this was Wheaton.

The final image shows the entrance to Foggy Bottom station. Metro completely rebuilt this entrance a few years ago. Prior to its reconstruction, it had three escalators. But when one or more was broken, the lines to get into and out of the station were legendary. When WMATA rebuilt it, they put in three new escalators in such a way that there was room for a staircase. The LED lights glinting off the sides of the escalator are a clue here. Another clue is the building visible just outside, which is on the northeast corner of 23rd and I NW. Twenty-two got this one right.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Great work. Stay tuned. We’ll have five more images for you next Tuesday.