Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion

More changes coming Monday for the schedules:

Select Schedule Enhancements Effective Monday, July 18, 2016
Customers should refer to the printed timetables with the July 18, 2016 effective date for complete service information. Major changes to service are noted below:
Lansdale/Doylestown:
NEW AM Service: Train #502 will depart Suburban Station at 5:29 a.m. with service to Lansdale Station (arriving at 6:18 a.m.)
NEW AM Service: Train #5803 will depart Doylestown Station at 5:25 a.m. with service to Center City
NEW AM Service: Train #6579 will depart Lansdale Station at 6:48 a.m. with Local stops to 30th Street Station (arriving at 7:49 a.m.)
Train #505 (Inbound service from Lansdale Station) will make additional stops at Pennbrook, North Wales, and Gwynedd Valley Stations
Train #6588 (Outbound service towards Lansdale Station) will now make stops at North Hills, Oreland, Fort Washington, Ambler, Penllyn, Gwynedd Valley, North Wales, Penbrook, and Lansdale Stations
NEW PM Service: Train #6599 will depart Lansdale Station at 6:10 p.m. for service to Center City
Manayunk/Norristown
Train #2307 (service towards University City Station): Adjustments to service between North Broad and University City Stations.
Train #6297 (service towards University City Station) will depart Miquon Station 9 minutes LATER
Paoli/Thorndale:
Train #516 (AM Inbound service to Center City) will originate at Thorndale Station (departing at 5:30 a.m.)
Train #1516 (AM Inbound service to Center City) will operate EXPRESS service from Haverford Station and will no longer make stops at Ardmore, Wynnewood, Narberth, Merion, and Overbrook Stations
Train #1549 (PM Outbound service towards Thorndale) will operate continued service to Thorndale Station
Warminster:
Train #405 (AM Inbound service to Center City) will originate from Warminster Station

It looks like lansdale passengers haven't been forgotten about, however warminster has, and those poor Cynwyd passengers don't even get a train anymore, mods feel free to delete this pointless post

My post or yours?

Neither.

Yours gives us useful information, even though it is available elsewhere.

The other poster expressed the type of opinion that I get carried away and post sometimes. Okay, a lot. So I wouldn't call it "pointless".

Just had a random thought about the Airport Line.

Could Airport trains simply run between Suburban and the Airport bypassing Eastwick (the only low platform station on the line) which would allow SEPTA to lease Metro-North M8s for that line and redeploy Silverliners to lines that really need them?

Can the M8's run on 25Hz? Isn't the ex-New Haven now 12KV 60 Hz?

Allot of people use the Eastwick station to get on other modes of Septa transportation and for the free parking, bypassing that station would not make people happy.

Ken S. wrote:

BuddCar711 wrote:Now will SEPTA run the borrowed equipment on weekends?

They supposedly have enough Silverliner IVs to maintain the weekend schedules.

Does anyone know if this is for sure? They'll need maintenance windows somewhere for the SL IVs right?

glennk419 wrote:

Ken S. wrote:Just had a random thought about the Airport Line.

Could Airport trains simply run between Suburban and the Airport bypassing Eastwick (the only low platform station on the line) which would allow SEPTA to lease Metro-North M8s for that line and redeploy Silverliners to lines that really need them?

Can the M8's run on 25Hz? Isn't the ex-New Haven now 12KV 60 Hz?

No, they cannot run on 25hz ... If they ever run into NYP via the HellGate it would be under 3rd rail & not catenary.

Thank you. I didn't think so.

IIRC, there was interest in having the M8's being 25hz capable, but that was shelved due to weight concerns.

kiha40 wrote:

Ken S. wrote:

BuddCar711 wrote:Now will SEPTA run the borrowed equipment on weekends?

They supposedly have enough Silverliner IVs to maintain the weekend schedules.

Does anyone know if this is for sure? They'll need maintenance windows somewhere for the SL IVs right?

That actually is correct. The IV's are more than enough for the normal weekend schedules. In past, it was a rarity to see a Budd/Louie Silverliner II/III set out on the rails on weekends.
But now, with keeping the IV's running as much as possible, it means the recent bunch of tagged cars (and one Bomber coach was spotted tagged almost end to end on Friday) will be out and about without getting cleaned for much longer than usual, and the vandals know this.

Which cars were tagged?

I'm assuming "tagged" as in "spray painted in graffiti". On July 5th, there were about five cars that had been "tagged" in this way waiting to be cleaned at Overbrook. Saw them sitting there while I was on the Pennsylvanian going back to 30th street for my transfer to Baltimore.

A couple of cars had graffiti on them on the 12th and I also saw some Silverliner V cars in Overbrook shop tracks with graffiti