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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. METSS_221014_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2022_10_14G1_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (4 photos from 10/14/2022)
2. METSS_211021_18.JPG: Long delays when the 7000-series trains were pulled out of service
3. METSS_211021_22.JPG: I had never seen an idiot riding a bicycle on the platform before, knowing it was fully prohibited.
4. METSS_210802_01.JPG: The new turnstiles have arrived.
5. METSS_210723_03.JPG: More reliable faregates are coming to this station in July. SmarTrip cards from before 2012 will no longer work. Check the serial number to see if your card needs replacing. Take action now. Avoid disruption later.
6. METSS_210425_05.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2021_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (8 photos from 2021)
  Metro Standpipe
7. METSS_210425_07.JPG: Contact. Less. Download the SmarTrip app on your phone today. That's doing your part.
8. METSS_210425_10.JPG: SmarTrip now on your Phone. Download the SmarTrip app on your phone today. That's doing your part.
9. METSS_200417_06.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2020_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (4 photos from 2020)
10. METSS_191025_01.JPG: The station has been modified to raise the height of some of the side barriers trying to prevent jumpers. Having noticed that, I watched a kid walked through one of the redesigned emergency exits. I talked later to one of the attendants and he said they were instructed to not confront jumpers. He said the DC government had pretty well gutted enforcement when they decriminalized the activity. As we were talking, two kids squeezed through the gates without paying.
11. METSS_190707_09.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (6 photos from 2019)
  It looks like they were getting ready to install some of those outside shelters on the platform.
12. METSS_160316_04.JPG: The entire Metro subway was closed for the day because of electrical safety issues. I had to take the bus downtown instead of the subway... and it ended up being cheaper as well as faster. I'm not sure that was the message I was supposed to get from the subway being shut down but what the heck!
13. METSS_160316_09.JPG: URGENT MESSAGE The entire Metrorail system will be CLOSED ALL DAY ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 to allow for emergency inspections of power cables. Your safety is our highest priority.
14. METSS_160125_08.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2016_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (8 photos from 2016)
  The trains took a couple of days to start running. Fares were free the first day.
15. METSS_141025_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2014_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (5 photos from 2014)
16. METSS_130514_13.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2013_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (2 photos from 2013)
  There was a fire on the Metro system
17. METSS_110103_02.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2011_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (2 photos from 2011)
18. METSS_100714_06.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2010_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (1 photo from 2010)
  This freight was on a car passing the station. I realize "Do not hump" means something else to railroad people...
19. METSS_090912_08.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2009_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (1 photo from 2009)
20. METSS_080614_02.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2008_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (5 photos from 2008)
  Silver Spring during track maintenance work
21. METSS_040902_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2004_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (1 photo from 2004)
22. METSS_030220_05.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2003_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (3 photos from 2003)
23. METSS_020516_03.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2002_MD_Metro_SS Metro Station -- Silver Spring (13 photos from 2002)
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Wikipedia Description: Silver Spring (Washington Metro)
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Silver Spring is a Washington Metro station in Montgomery County, Maryland on the Red Line. It is the first station in Maryland on the eastern end of the line and is the most-used station in Maryland.

The station serves the suburb of Silver Spring, and is located at Colesville Road (U.S. Route 29) and East-West Highway. A MARC station straddles the Metro station, with the two halves of the MARC station connected by a pedestrian bridge. Trains from Grosvenor-Strathmore terminate here during midday. Service began on February 6, 1978.

Prior to the opening of the Forest Glen station on September 22, 1990, the Silver Spring Station was the terminus for the eastern end of the Red Line. Trains would either be run into the station on the inbound track for restarting in the opposite direction, or the train would arrive on the outbound track and go out of service, whereupon it would be run into the pocket track just beyond the station, the operator would walk back to what was the tail end of the train, and use the console at that end to restart the train in the reverse direction, and return to the station on the opposite track. This latter move is what is presently done when Red Line trains terminate at Silver Spring in regular service.

Like Brookland-CUA station, the platform at Silver Spring is slightly curved, with convex mirrors located on the inbound side of the platform to aid train operators in making sure the area is clear before closing the doors.

This station is planned to be one of the Metro stations on the Purple Line system, formerly known as the Bi-County Transitway.

Several Metrobuses and Ride On buses serve this station.

Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center:

The proposed transit center will sit on the site of the current Silver Spring Metro Center. The new three-floor, urban, modal, state-of-the-art facility will feature 34 bays for Metro, Ride-on Buses, University of Ma ...More...
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