Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad

It was reluctant to change its operations, but in 1900 it relented to pressure and became the last company to switch from horsecars to electric streetcars.

[4][5] The company came into a dispute with the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway over their shared use of track on Fourteenth Street.

Following litigation that settled in April 1900, the two companies became joint owners of the track in the dispute with the Anacostia and Potomac to pay $18,000 for its share and to provide a 550 V power supply for the WA&MV streetcars to operate there.

Nonetheless, on August 31, 1912, the Washington Railway purchased the controlling stock of the Anacostia and Potomac River, and it ceased to run as a separate company.

[4] In 1938, two lawsuits were brought against the Washington Railway by the bondholders of the Anacostia & Potomac to pay nearly $4,000,000 in bonds from the former company.