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I remember taking a walking tour of the tunnel from Judiciary Square to Metro Center before this segment was fully completed. A group of DC Teachers was given this tour as a part of a teacher education summer course on career education. Very interesting and somewhat erie to be in that tunnel in that...

What would be the advantage of having two subway-surface routes running between Juniper Street and the Darby Loop? For most of those runs, Chester and Woodland Aves are not that far apart ( though on their outer ends they are). Is there really enough traffic on the western ends of each street to Dar...

That's interesting-- of course this was almost 50 years ago, but though I lived on campus while I attended WCU ( when it was West Chester State College) whenever the train schedule permitted, I would use the train to travel from home in West Yeadon, less than a mile from the Lansdowne Station, to WC...

I'd love to the rail service restored to West Chester but I wonder if the ridership would be any better than it was when the service was cut back. As far back as the PRR days, ridership between Media & West Chester was sparce at best. They generally couldn't fill one MP 54 car, and only ran two ...

No problem. These 14 cars were built circa 1949 by the St. Louis Car Co using a variation of the pre-war PCC body ( no standee windows), with the 32 degree windshield slope and the "Chicago" Length ( to accommodate the second platform). They were my favorite Red Arrow Cars, though the 1941...

Wash me. Good looking PCC (I guess it is.) Nothing wrong with it that a little soap and water wouldn't fix. That and one tail light on the front of the car off and the other on. Anyhow, as a rail fan, I love it. Car 20 isn't much better, with its two-tone door. From Philadelphia Trolley Tracks, whi...

The South Shore Line and the P&W have long been considered the last two remaining interurbans, however each has some characteristics of other types of rail lines. The South Shore, especially with its current passenger equipment is very much like a commuter railroad, while the P&W ( as the No...

Germantown is the brake shop for the SEPTA buses as well as a depot for the contractor operations for route 310 - Horsham Breeze, 312 - Cornwells Heights Parking Shuttle, and 316 - LUCY (Green & Gold). Until a few years (actually, I think more like 8 to 10 - my how the years blow by!) there wer...

Where is Victory Depot (cross streets please) and what is its function? The Victory Ave facility was originally the Red Arrow bus storage and maintenance facility as well as serving as the P&W's 'car barn". During Red Arrow days, the trolleys were stored and maintained at the Llanerch faci...

Philadelphia will have a problem raising the loading level on the surface portions of the subway-surface lines because, except for the portion of Route 36 running on Island Road, the tracks for those lines are in the middle of streets which do not have sufficient room for the installation of an isl...

Philadelphia will have a problem raising the loading level on the surface portions of the subway-surface lines because, except for the portion of Route 36 running on Island Road, the tracks for those lines are in the middle of streets which do not have sufficient room for the installation of an isla...

Philadelphia's remaining traction lines were all built in or prior to the early 20th Century. In the city itself, you have the five subway-surface lines, which are traditional streetcar lines in West Philadelphia with stops at street corners, usually with the car in the middle of the street. Passeng...

It has now been five years since this thread began--- bottomline is there will be no restoration of streetcar service to Route 23. SEPTA never intended to restore rail service to either 23 or 56. And the photo which prompted the thread is actually a "what if" photo by Phillytrolley.Org ima...

Does anyone have a video of a SEPTA Route 11 car ACTUALLY MEETING a CSX train at the diamond? I would love to see it. Lee Carlson A photo of that is likely to be difficult, if not impossible to find let alone a video, unless you'd be satisfied with a shot of a Route 11 car having to wait at the cro...

If they don't sell naming rights, it makes perfect sense to me to rename it Maryland Station. What do we call the other 5 stations along the NEC in Maryland where Amtrak stops? Four of the five major stations along the NEC are, or were named Penn ( or Pennsylvania) Station: New York ( NYP), Newark,...