Metro unveiled a 12-foot tall pylon at Metro Center Monday bearing the names of 26 workers who died while on duty for the transit agency. The names etched into the black granite delve into the agency’s past. It shows Harold McLinton, a former Redskins linebacker who worked at Metro to help curb vandalism until he was killed by a drunken driver in 1980. And it has the most recently lost: Jeffrey Garrard and Sung Oh, two track workers who were killed on the Red Line by a reversing truck just over a year ago.

The families of the workers and the agency’s largest union welcomed the memorial, similar to those erected for construction workers killed while building skyscrapers or dams.