Talk:Chevy Chase Junior College

Town

Hi, @Naraht: I changed "Chevy Chase" to "Town of Chevy Chase" in the infobox--and then reverted because I realized belatedly that the infobox presents the address like a postal address. No one uses "Town of Chevy Chase" in the postal address, as far as I can tell, and I think the infobox should probably should reflect postal style. (And I changed the category "Chevy Chase (CDP)" to "Chevy Chase (town)" because the school building is, in fact, in the town and not in the CDP.) What do you think? PRRfan (talk) 20:07, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

As a preface, I live about 5 miles from there, and keeping track of where in Chevy Chase you are (and the tax district based on that) gets messy. I knew that some of the Universities in New York had similar issues in that the university was in the village which was in some cases non-conterminous with the town. The first one that I found was Alfred University, where what is visible to the user is "postal style" with the city in it linking to the village. If you feel that the situation for CCJC is the same as Alfred University, I'm fine with using that as a model, which I *think* is the way that you had it. If you agree, I'm OK with reverting my revert and putting it back the way it was. (A long winded way of saying I probably shouldn't have reverted in the first place).Naraht (talk) 20:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, too many Chevy Chases! But I think

| address = 7100 Connecticut Avenue

| city = [[Chevy Chase (town), Maryland|Chevy Chase, Maryland]]

...is the way to go. Thanks! PRRfan (talk) 21:26, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Streetcar line

Regarding this series of edits, and in particular a reversion by @Rublamb with the summary: "...we have to go with the name used in the source...": A few things are true at once:

• The name used in the source is "The Rock Creek Rail Line"—not "Rock Creek Railway", as the reversion and its summary have it.
• "Rock Creek Rail Line" was never the proper name of the streetcar line or the company that built it.
• The source does not state that this incorrect name was ever used by the school or anyone connected with it; the mistake is the source's alone.
• There are plenty of sources to indicate that the company was, in fact, the Rock Creek Railway.
• In 1895, the Rock Creek Railway bought the larger Washington and Georgetown Railroad; the merged company was the Capital Traction Company.
• The school came along eight years after the Rock Creek Railway ceased to exist.
• No doubt many people continued to call the streetcar line the "Rock Creek Railway" or variations of it.

Given all this, some options for an encyclopedic description of the school and its transit service are:

1) "The campus was 35 minutes from the city via Capital Traction Company streetcars."

2) "The campus was 35 minutes from the city via the streetcars of the Capital Traction Company, along a line built by the Rock Creek Railway."

3) "The campus was 35 minutes from the city via the streetcar line built by the Rock Creek Railway, which had become the Capital Traction Company."

4) "The campus was 35 minutes from the city via streetcars operated by the Capital Traction Company but still colloquially called the "Rock Creek line" after its predecessor, the Rock Creek Railway."

Got a preference? PRRfan (talk) 22:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

PRRfan (talk) 22:07, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I appreciate your knowledge of this topic. However, we have to go with the sources. Unless you have a source that says the Capital Traction Company went to the college, it would be incorrect to state that in the article. I would speculate that both are correct: meaning ownership company changed, but that Rock Creek was still a commonly used, less clunky name. Either way, our speculations fall under original research at this point. My solution would be none of the above, but to drop the name of the line/railway, simply noting that the campus was accessible by streetcar. If you want to add an efn that discusses which line, that would be fine with me. Rublamb (talk) 23:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)