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With construction of its Branch Avenue Rail Yard on schedule to be complete by the end of October, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority officials plan in mid-October to electrify the third rail so that cars may be stored and serviced when the yard goes into full operation in November.



The 38-acre yard will have the capacity to store 178 rail cars and include a car wash building for exterior cleaning, an eight-car capacity maintenance building for car inspections and minor repairs, and an operations and maintenance building, which would provide space for interior car cleaning and maintenance.