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Postat: söndag 15 december 2013 15:02
Washington Post: District’s streetcar line finally has its first car
After all the planning and jackhammering and track-laying, what the District’s new streetcar line needed was a streetcar. And there it was.
“It’s coming. It’s coming,” said Dawn Verdugo, 38, who grew up in San Francisco and imagined being on hand to see that city’s first cable car in 1873. “That’s a big deal.”
Many doubted the moment would arrive. But Friday night, workers fit together a massive green steel ramp, loosened the winch on a flatbed truck and slowly lowered a 66-foot-long Czech-made streetcar toward H Street NE. As the first wheels touched the steel track at 9:45 p.m., a half-century after the city’s last streetcar stopped running, spectators cheered — and Verdugo, a chemist who works in the serious Washington world of national security, was giddy. “There’s a train! We get to take a train!”