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Delaware Fives

Discussion relating to Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Philadelphia Metro Area). Official web site can be found here: www.septa.com. Also including discussion related to the PATCO Speedline rapid transit operated by Delaware River Port Authority. Official web site can be found here: http://www.ridepatco.org/.

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Re: Delaware Fives

  by South Jersey Budd
 
The cars were purchased to increase capacity on the Wilmington/Newark Line. I believe the am trains were 9218 as a new Newark express and 2720 as a Newark local. Think 8265/ 9260 was the new P.M. Newark round trip.

Re: Delaware Fives

  by deathtopumpkins
 
jackintosh11 wrote:Why did they buy these, instead of SEPTA buying them? If they wanted to be guaranteed to have at least one set a day, they probably could have just paid SEPTA to do that and not own cars. It'll just make things more complicated in the long run.
I'd hazard a guess that it counts toward their payments to SEPTA to operate the service.
Similar to how Rhode Island owns some of the MBTA's fleet of Kawasaki bilevels as part of their payments to the T for operating Providence Line service into Rhode Island.
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