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https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/tunnel-septa-amtrak-30th-street-to-stay-closed As SEPTA cut the ribbon on its refurbished and renamed Drexel Station at 30th Street on Monday, general manager Leslie Richards said SEPTA had done its part to reopen the tunnel. "The project also futu...
Amtrak misroute: CBSNews SEPTA says Amtrak redirected a Regional Rail train to a dead track in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Riders aboard a SEPTA train headed into Philadelphia were stuck Thursday morning after the car was routed to the wrong track, a spokesperson confirmed to CBS News Philad...
On a personal note I joined Railroad.Net 19 years ago today - February 7, 2005 One of the best benefits of the Forums is having almost 20 years of information saved and available... The RR.Net Archives go back to March 11-12, 2004 when the "revival" of Railroad.Net began service... This i...
This, while interesting, has drifted away from "Obscure Facts about SEPTA"
Would Starlink work? Starlink requires a dish and a fixed-on-ground point. It gets complicated real quick on a train consist in motion. Starlink to cellular to wifi? It may be more complicated than just running more fiber along the rail lines. Starlink supports airplane service, so other than tunne...
Let's keep it on SEPTA AEM-7s & ALP-44s.
Or post in the NJT Forum - new-jersey-transit-njt-rail-and-light-rail-lrt-f69.html
I saw this paragraph on the Metroliner wikipedia page . On October 29, 1989, Amtrak introduced a single one-way morning Metroliner trip from Downingtown, Pennsylvania, to Washington. The trip largely served Amtrak employees, as a corresponding evening trip to serve regular commuters was not offered....
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2023/12/21/drexel-university-naming-rights-septa-station.html The five-year, $3.1 million agreement will rename SEPTA's 30th Street Station into Drexel Station at 30th Street. The station serves riders on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line, trolley and bus ro...
My daughter reports to me that there is more than one trolley decorated for the season popping up in her neighborhood.
Who is decorating them? The shop or the drivers? Do drivers get assigned a particular numbered trolley for any duration?
I dont see a strike date, but it's no doubt sooner than later. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/septa-strike-locomotive-engineers-union/ "The engineers and trainman on SEPTA are the lowest paid in the industry," BLET Vice President James P. Louis said in a release. "With the ...
I will still call it the P&W or R100!!!!
https://6abc.com/septa-norristown-high-speed-line-delaware-county-radnor-township/14011404/ Two SEPTA employees were injured after an accident Saturday morning. It happened around 9 a.m. near the County Line Station on the Norristown High Speed Line in Radnor Township. SEPTA says there was an incide...
Yeah, I guessed a dewire as well. I dont know what else it could have been.
She didn't say anything about going down to the lower level.
My daughter took the trolley and BSL to the game. Packed both ways she said. Just before popping out of the tunnel at 40th street "there was a very loud thump then all the lights went out". The operator had to go out and "fix something" A friend drove down from Newtown for the Fl...