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Dec 15, 2009

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

Courtesy DDOT 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…

Nov 18, 2009

D.C.’s Streetcars Finally Being Shipped from Czech Republic

On Tuesday, the District Department of Transportation released the above images of the city’s three streetcars being loaded up for shipping. That’s good news, considering D.C. taxpayers have been paying to store the streetcars in the Czech Republic for over four years now. DDOT says these images show the streetcars being loaded onto flatbed trucks in the Czech Republic and then arriving in Hamburg, Germany. They are expected to make it to D.C., by ship,…

 
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