Numbers For SEPTA's P/P Cars

Silverliner II #269 still actually has PENNSYLVANIA spelled out on the sides above the windows and another car, I forget the number, has parts of PA on the sides.

NorfolkSouthernSean wrote:Silverliner II #269 still actually has PENNSYLVANIA spelled out on the sides above the windows and another car, I forget the number, has parts of PA on the sides.

#218 has "YLVANIA" on one side.

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Bob

I only wish that SEPTA had kept 9004 lettered for READING COMPANY to pay respects to that side of the system too. I believe that was the last car so lettered, and it got scraped off when it got overhauled in 1989.

The 269 was the last car still wearing the PENNSYLVANIA lettering prior to its 1989 overhaul.

If I had a Silverliner II to call my own...it would be #9013. I always seem to have run into that car at least twice a month since I was a kid....

Actually I don't think the lettering was removed, just plated over.

When the Cape May Seashore Lines aquired most of the former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Budd Cars from NJDOT, they discovered that many of the cars had the name plated over, and removal of the plate revealed the name again.

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SEPTALRV9072 wrote:Actually I don't think the lettering was removed, just plated over.

Yeah, that too, lol.....a lot of cars got the plate treatment and others got the lettering removed.

Silverliner II wrote:

SEPTALRV9072 wrote:Actually I don't think the lettering was removed, just plated over.

Yeah, that too, lol.....a lot of cars got the plate treatment and others got the lettering removed.

So 269 has been fully delettered? I thought I had seen a picture of it in the new red/blue stripes with Pennsylvania still on there.

The letters were removed from #257, but at the proper angle you can see where they were.

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Bob

So 269 has been fully delettered? I thought I had seen a picture of it in the new red/blue stripes with Pennsylvania still on there.

No, it still says PENNSYLVANIA. I think the wording was just a little unclear.

The nameboard of car number 202 or 203 was covered with something because there are all these ugly cracks on the surface of the nameboard now. Anyway, if you look closely, the letter P is starting to reappear on the nameboards where the covering is starting to chip away.

Not sure if I asked this, but does anybody have any diagrams of the Comet cars? I am also trying to make some molds to add to my N-Scale fleet of Metroliners.

Can anyone of you tell me on what routes do the AEM-7s run?

R7 Trenton, R5 Paoli-Thorndale, and R3 West Trenton.