"realtype"
Finally got some cell phone pics on Fri. of the the feeler car at Brentwood.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7367453@N0 ... 856695980/
(Click "all sizes" at top to enlarge)
The car was at the North end of the yard on a track that was recently filled in with pavement (third rail also removed). Photos were taken from a Shady Grove bound Red Line train (but you prob. already figured that).
I checked that picture against one of the birds eye shots
maps.live.com and against a track schematic I have of Brentwood yard. That track is not an existing track that had it's third rail remove and replace with pavement. It is a new track that was added next to the existing track 21. Note the location of the lamp posts in your pictures compared to the birds eye shot at maps.live.com.
WMATA has a contractor working on increasing the servicing capacity at Brentwood Yard.
Thanks for the picture. I will have to revise my track schematics.
John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore.