Metropolitan Branch Trail
American rail trail
About
The Metropolitan Branch Trail (informally, the Met Branch Trail or MBT) is a partially-built American rail trail between the transit center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Union Station in the District of Columbia. When completed, it will run for 8 miles (13 km): one in Maryland and seven in Washington, D.C. The trail parallels Metrorail and CSX tracks along a right-of-way opened in 1873 as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)'s Metropolitan Branch.
The trail is part of the East Coast Greenway. It is to connect to the Capital Crescent Trail when that trail is completed. A planned connection from Fort Totten to the Northwest Branch Trail of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System at Hyattsville, Maryland, is partially built.
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Federal Communications Commission
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AIPAC
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Gallaudet University
Private university in Washington, D.C. for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing
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American Psychological Association
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