Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion

Tweet from SEPTA:

RRD: SEPTA GM holds 8AM press conf. w/update on car shortage. First repaired SilverlinerV car back and departing Fox Chase-8:49AM.

Schedule Enhancements Effective
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

New PDF schedules will be published after 6:00 p.m. Friday, September 2. Changes to service are noted below.

Media/Elwyn
TRAINS STOP AT ALL STATIONS: Trains will make stops at all stations following the completion of the Crum Creek Viaduct Replacement Project. Customers should check the schedule as Trains at Elwyn, Media, Moylan-Rose Valley, Wallingford, and Swarthmore Stations will depart LATER than previously scheduled Shuttle Buses

Lansdale/Doylestown
ADJUSTMENT: Train #3552 (departing Suburban Station at 6:03 p.m.) will no longer stop at University City Station and will operate Express service from Temple University to Glenside Station.
ADJUSTMENT: Train #502 (departing Suburban Station at 5:29 a.m.) will operate 2 minutes LATER between Temple University and Lansdale Stations

Manayunk/Norristown
DISCONTINUED: Train #6299 (departing Miquon Station at 8:25 a.m.) will be discontinued due to the return of full service along the Media/Elwyn Line
ADJUSTMENT: Train #6297 will depart Miquon Station at 8:16 a.m., 7 minutes LATER than previously scheduled and will no longer make stops at Allegheny and North Broad Stations
ADJUSTMENT: Train #207 (departing Elm St. Station at 7:40 a.m.) will operate Local service between Ivy Ridge and Center City Stations
ADJUSTMENT: Train #3250 will change to #6252 and will no longer stop at University City Station
NEW: Train #7218 will depart Suburban Station at 6:34 a.m. and operate local service to Norristown Transportation Center
NEW: Train #6239 will depart Elm Street Station at 11:47 p.m. with Local service to Center City
NEW: Train #6236 will depart 30th Street Station at 12:55 a.m. with service to Elm Street Station
NEW: Train #6293 will depart Suburban Station at 7:36 a.m. and will make stops at all stations except for Allegheny And North Broad
ADJUSTMENT: Most INBOUND (towards Center City) Trains will depart 7 minutes LATER at Norristown T.C., Conshohocken, Spring Mill, Miquon, Ivy Ridge, Manayunk, Wissahickon, and East Falls Stations. Customers should refer to the timetable for specific departure times

Paoli/Thorndale
Train number change (PM Train #1556 becomes #556)

Trenton
NEW: Train #1780 will depart Trenton Transit Center at 6:40 p.m. with Local service to Center City

Warminster
Train Number change (AM Train #6413 becomes #4213)

West Trenton
ADJUSTMENT: Train #3705 will originate at West Trenton Station, departing at 6:35 a.m. This train will continue to stop at Neshaminy Falls at the current scheduled time, 6:58 a.m.
ADJUSTMENT: Train #3515 will no longer originate at West Trenton Station
ADJUSTMENT: Train #6391 will originate at West Trenton Station, departing at 7:07 a.m. and will operate 18 minutes EARLIER from Neshaminy Falls Station
NEW: Train #6390 will depart 30th Street Station at 5:15 p.m. with Local service to West Trenton

Wilmington/Newark
NEW: Train #4213 will depart Suburban Station at 8:04 a.m. with service to Newark Station
NEW: Train #9230 will depart Newark Station at 9:56 a.m. with Local service to Center City

Manayunk/Norristown
DISCONTINUED: Train #6299 (departing Miquon Station at 8:25 a.m.) will be discontinued due to the return of full service along the Media/Elwyn Line

What does this have to do will the Media/Elwyn line?

They're probably moving that equipment/crew to the Media/Elwyn line. It was a deadhead to Miquon and then local to 30th.

That makes sense.

Apparently 4 Silverliner Vs are back in service
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/traffic/ ... 09351.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Philadelphia area's main transit agency began returning some of its sidelined rail cars to service Thursday following repairs and projects its full fleet will be back in service by mid-November.

Four repaired Silverliner V cars departed from the Fox Chase neighborhood station Thursday morning to pick up passengers, agency officials said.

SEPTA has followed "a very aggressive return-to-service schedule" and expects a return to a regular weekday schedule in early October, General Manager Jeff Knueppel said. Each car takes about 12 days to repair, and transit officials expect the new beams to last at least 30 years.

SEPTA Starting to get Regional Rail Cars Back on Track

Peg Quann, Bucks County Courier Times wrote: SEPTA expects to have its Regional Rail trains back on a normal schedule by Oct. 10, thanks to the hard work of a Lower Bucks company.
[...]
Working more than 15 hours a day and on weekends, employees at PennFab have fabricated 340 of the 480 beams needed to fix the passenger cars pulled from service. Each beam weighs 380 pounds.
[...]
The first five fixed cars were returned to service Thursday on the Fox Chase line. But SEPTA officials admit that the real crunch time starts next week, as colleges reopen and ridership picks up with the beginning of the back-to-school season.
[...]
[Jeff Knueppel] estimated that the trains would be able to return to their regular schedules by the first or second week in October, but said the timeline might shorten as workers have gotten more experienced with making the beams, finishing them and putting the trains back together.

Lots of good news all around!

The NBC article notes that the beams are expected to last "at least 30 years". I don't want to be around in 2050 when the Silverliner 6's have an issue and the 5's aren't capable of bailing them out like the 4's have this time.

Maybe the 4's will still be chugging along at that point.

"they don't make 'em like they used to"

Lets see... 15 MARC cars... 12 days each... So in the worst case, MARC should get the train sets back by this time next year. I wonder which ones will have the Authentic Old Bay Seasoned Chesapeake Bay Crabs smell replaced by Authentic Philly Cheese Steak smell...

6297 running 15+ minutes late. Push pull set with 2304 in lead.

The Push/Pull set with 2 Marc, 4 Septa, 1 Septa cab car made it's way up to Norristown during the Tuesday PM rush.

And that same push-pull set, I got on video at Philmont on Tuesday AM rush on 6391.

However, it is now a complete SEPTA set. Sometime overnight, the two MARC coaches were cut out of the consist and replaced with two SEPTA coaches. I saw the set northbound at Temple U this morning... all the cars and locomotive are the same, except for the 4th and 5th cars from the cab car, where the MARC cars had been.

The delays are caused by higher passenger volume and because since Labor Day is over people are coming to school or returning to work after the break
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/in-t ... elays.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On Tuesday morning, the day after Labor Day, SEPTA advised regional rail riders that they could face delays of up to 30 minutes due to "heavy passenger load." By early afternoon, the agency said service had returned to normal.

For those not following the other thread, more bad news.

http://6abc.com/traffic/repaired-septa- ... t/1508045/

At least they found it now... and can apply the solution to later cars as they get re-fitted.