Pentagon City is a Washington Metro station in the Pentagon City neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia on the Blue and Yellow Lines.
The station is located at the corner of Hayes Street and 12th Street, between Army-Navy Drive and South 15th Street. It links to a tunnel that allows direct access west into the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, a large shopping mall, and east under Hayes Street to an entrance outside the Pentagon Centre shopping complex.
A provision exists at the station's south end for a future second mezzanine, with knock-out panels visible above the tracks on the station's south wall. Additionally, an abandoned pedestrian tunnel exists beyond a set of glass doors off the station mezzanine, which leads to the northeast side of the intersection of 12th and Hayes Streets.
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2002-03-02 Comments: Passenger Information Display System, indicating a train is "approaching". Until mid-2004, "approaching" was used for a train closer than two minutes. Note the old "MT VERNON SQ-UDC" name on the sign, prior to changing to "MT VERNON-CNV CT". |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series (left), Breda 4000-Series (right) Service: WMATA Blue Line,WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2002-03-02 Comments: Breda cars on the Blue and Yellow Lines wait at Pentagon City station as both make passenger exchanges on their respective platforms. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2002-04-13 Comments: Looking outbound from near mezzanine, at platform level. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2002-04-13 Comments: Station name plaque, outbound platform. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2003-02-08 Comments: Tunnel under South Hayes Street. The direct Metro entrance to Pentagon City Mall is visible in the background. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2003-02-08 Comments: Crown of station entrance pylon, Pentagon Centre side. |
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Vehicle: Breda 4000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2003-08-09 Comments: A Yellow Line train services Pentagon City on the inbound track. |
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Vehicle: Breda 3254-3255 (pair closest to camera) Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-05-08 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Vehicle: Breda 3254 (left), Breda 3455 (right) Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-05-08 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-05-29 Comments: Metro customers wait on a bench for an inbound train in this long-exposure photo from a bench on the outbound platform. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-06-05 Comments: Long-exposure photograph of the mall-side Pentagon City entrance pylon on a very wet day. The right (up) escalator was running, and the left (down) escalator was not, thus why one escalator is sharp and the other blurred. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Knock-out panels, part of a provision for a future second mezzanine, at the outbound end of the station. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: A long-exposure photograph taken from floor level at the platform's edge shows a view of the tracks and the edges of both platforms for most of the length of the station. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Station entrance pylon, Pentagon Centre entrance. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Doors and windows across the corridor from the station mezzanine. Beyond these doors lies a corridor that goes under Hayes Street and reaches a stairway to the street across 12th Street from the east entrance to the Metro station. |
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Vehicle: Breda 4000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Life in between the tracks! This plant was discovered growing in the light bank in between the tracks, underneath the mezzanine. |
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Vehicle: Rohr 1040 (far left), Rohr 1041 (left), Rohr 1042 (right) Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2004-08-18 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-01-04 Comments: View of the inbound platform as viewed from the floor of the outbound platform, showing an advertisement, a payphone, a station name plaque, and a bench full of riders. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-01-04 Comments: In this long-exposure photo taken from the floor, an outbound train of Breda rehabs leaves the station. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-01-04 Comments: An outbound 3000-series Breda train closes its doors and prepares to leave in this long-exposure photo taken from the floor of the platform. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-03-16 Comments: PIDS screen showing that a Blue Line train to Franconia-Springfield is arriving in the station. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Service: WMATA Blue Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-05-11 Comments: Train is on outbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-05-25 Comments: Crowds fill the north end of the inbound platform at roughly 9:30 in the evening. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-06-08 Comments: Train lengths returned to the PIDS signs in early June, after customer feedback revealed that the new three-line display was helpful, except for the loss of the train length information. |
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Vehicle: Breda 3155 Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-07-20 Comments: Train is on outbound track. One headlight is out. |
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Vehicle: Breda 4031 Service: WMATA Blue Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-09-14 Comments: Train is on inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-09-24 Comments: Signs are posted to direct passengers to the outbound platform. Due to single-tracking due to a switch replacement at Braddock Road, all trains in both directions serviced Pentagon City from the outbound track. |
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Vehicle: CAF Service: WMATA Orange Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2005-09-24 Comments: An Orange Line train, presumably dispatched from Alexandria, services Pentagon City station on its way to proper Orange Line territory. |
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Vehicle: Breda 4000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Category: July 4 Service Date: 2006-07-04 Comments: A Breda 4000-series car at Pentagon City is running Yellow Line service to Franconia-Springfield. |
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Location: Pentagon City Category: July 4 Service Date: 2006-07-04 Comments: At Pentagon City, the PIDS screen shows Blue Line trains going to Rosslyn, while Yellow Line trains are traveling to their regular destination of Mt. Vernon Square. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Service: WMATA Blue Line Location: Pentagon City Category: July 4 Service Date: 2006-07-04 Comments: Later in the evening on July 4, 2006, some trains displayed the wrong destination code. Here, a Blue Line train to Huntington was inadvertently set to the wrong destination code, causing it to be signed as a Yellow Line train as would normally be the case, seen here at Pentagon City. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Category: July 4 Service Date: 2006-07-04 Comments: This is one destination that I can't quite explain, even with the special July 4 service pattern, as Yellow Line trains were going to their regular destination on July 4, thus requiring no change in destination code compared to normal service. Yet this train is signed in error as a Blue Line train to Mt. Vernon Square. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-07-18 Comments: A woman reads a book on a bench on the inbound platform. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-08-30 Comments: New escalator canopy over the east entrance. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-08-30 Comments: Speaker boxes and conduits, part of a new public address system. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-08-30 Comments: Row of speaker boxes as part of a new public address system. |
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Location: Pentagon City Category: Abandoned Tunnel at Pentagon City Date: 2006-09-12 Comments: Entrance to abandoned tunnel, with new interior lighting shining through the doors. |
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Location: Pentagon City Category: Abandoned Tunnel at Pentagon City Date: 2006-09-12 Comments: Entrance to abandoned tunnel, with new interior lighting shining through the doors. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-10-11 Comments: Speaker box removed from station wall, presumably to facilitate wiring. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-10-11 Comments: Conduits with removed speaker box further down the station, with no wiring. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-10-23 Comments: Completed wall speaker assembly as part of a new station public address system. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-10-26 Comments: New escalator canopy over west (shopping mall) side. |
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Vehicle: Rohr 1229 (left), CAF 5181 (right) Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-21 Comments: Long-exposure photo taken from floor level on the inbound platform shows a train on the outbound track. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2041 (left), Breda 3085 (right) Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-21 Comments: Long-exposure photo taken from floor level. This train was apparently beginning to depart the station during the exposure. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-21 Comments: Station mezzanine in long-exposure photo viewed from inbound platform at floor level. |
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Vehicle: Rohr 1251 (left), Rohr 1081 (right) Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-21 Comments: Two pairs of Rohr cars on the outbound track, seen in a long-exposure photo taken from floor level. |
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Service: WMATA Blue Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-21 Comments: A Blue Line train departs the station on the outbound track as seen in a long-exposure photo from floor level. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-28 Comments: Long-exposure photo of a Yellow Line train servicing Pentagon City from the inbound track. |
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Vehicle: Breda 2000 or 3000-Series Service: WMATA Yellow Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2006-11-28 Comments: Long-exposure photo of a Yellow Line train departing Pentagon City on the inbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2007-01-04 Comments: Inbound PIDS screen showing new Yellow Line destination of Fort Totten following a December 2006 extension of Yellow Line service. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-02-21 Comments: View facing inbound from far end of inbound platform. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-02-21 Comments: Inbound PIDS screen indicating scheduled track maintenance in the system. |
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Vehicle: Rohr (closest to camera) Service: WMATA Blue Line Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-02-21 Comments: View from mezzanine, facing outbound. Train is on inbound track. |
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Vehicle: Rohr Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-02-21 Comments: View from inbound platform, facing outbound. Train is on outbound track. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-03-21 Comments: Mezzanine, facing train hall. |
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Location: Pentagon City Date: 2009-04-26 Comments: Outbound end of station, seen from inbound platform. |
