D.C.'s Streetcars Arrive at Port of Baltimore

WTOP is reporting that D.C.'s streetcars arrived at the Port of Baltimore over the weekend, and are now awaiting customs clearance before being moved to their new home at the Greenbelt Rail Yard.

As we previously reported, the streetcars were loaded up and shipped here last month after spending several years sitting in the Czech Republic. The District government ordered and paid for the cars long before tracks had begun to be installed or legal hurdles had been cleared to get the planned streetcar lines up and running, and therefore had to pay to keep them stored in Europe. These three cars aren't expected to be put into use until 2012, and will be kept and maintained by WMATA in the meantime.