By: Kevin Harnack//March 26, 2018//
A crowd gathers to watch as The Hop – the official name of Milwaukee’s new streetcar – arrives in the city on a flatbed truck on Monday. The 67-foot, 83,000-pound streetcar was built by Pennsylvania-based Brookville Equipment Corp. and is the first of five to arrive. The streetcar was unloaded on St. Paul Avenue before being moved to an operations and maintenance center. Once several months of on-track testing are complete, the first riders should be able to climb aboard the streetcar later this year. (Staff video by Kevin Harnack)