Photos of Philly Transit...from above

This is pretty cool - not your normal aerial photos...

Elmwood Depot:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1957656

69th Street:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1891596

30th Street Station:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1923254

Wayne Jct:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1825119

Girard El Station:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1945527


Google Earth watch out

That's a very cool program, just a few months ago I was arguing with my boss over access to the same thing. Now suddenly it's free.

Did anyone else notice that there were two SEPTA push pull sets in Amtrak's yard at 30th St Station? Why would these be there? Might the images have been taken over Thankgiving weekend and they were assigned to Amtrak extras? Or would this be from the rail project when SEPTA trains were terminating on the lower level platforms and buses were bridging to Market East?

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1917494

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1923227

Actually this is Wayne Jct.:

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1825119

What you showed was Roberts Ave. Yard.

Wdobner wrote:
Did anyone else notice that there were two SEPTA push pull sets in Amtrak's yard at 30th St Station? Why would these be there? Might the images have been taken over Thankgiving weekend and they were assigned to Amtrak extras? Or would this be from the rail project when SEPTA trains were terminating on the lower level platforms and buses were bridging to Market East?

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1917494

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2& ... ne=1923227

Will,

Judging by the construction status of the office building, I'd say those photos are a couple years old.

Bob

Actually Thanksgiving 2004 seems like a reasonable time frame. Looking at photos of that building during construction, it had no glass on it sometime in November '04, but in December glass covered the lower 1/4 of the building.

Also, notice that the coach yard is completely empty except for those two PP sets and 5 amfleets. I've never seen that yard empty, so I would assume it is Thanksgiving while everything was out in service.

Can SEPTA make any use of the 2nd track area on the high line? Seems like a waste.

Also, when was 32nd street closed from Market to Chestnut?

SCB2525 wrote:Can SEPTA make any use of the 2nd track area on the high line?

Why?

SCB2525 wrote:Also, when was 32nd street closed from Market to Chestnut?

between '98 and '01 if I remember right...

TuckertonRR wrote:

SCB2525 wrote:Also, when was 32nd street closed from Market to Chestnut?

between '98 and '01 if I remember right...

The street was closed to traffic in '96, but the re-paving, landscaping and what didn't occur until 2000 or 2001 IIRC.

Matthew Mitchell wrote:

SCB2525 wrote:Can SEPTA make any use of the 2nd track area on the high line?

Why?

I don't know. I just hate seeing capacity or infastructure just left to rot.

SCB2525 wrote:I don't know. I just hate seeing capacity or infastructure just left to rot.

Why don't we worry about the truely useful infrastructure which SEPTA owns and is going to waste before we try taking over other group's infrastructure which that company is using? The Newtown Line, the West Chester Line, the the 23 and 56 trolleys, the Quakertown Line, and the Cynwyd branch are all going to waste despite SEPTA owning them. Even after those lines are returned to service SEPTA could be kept busy for decades working out service to Reading, a Roosevelt Blvd Subway, an LRT through the City Subway Branch, and a host of other programs before anyone would have a use for the West Philly Freight El.

SCB2525 wrote:

Matthew Mitchell wrote:

SCB2525 wrote:Can SEPTA make any use of the 2nd track area on the high line?

Why?

I don't know. I just hate seeing capacity or infastructure just left to rot.

I'd hardly call that rotting infrastructure. There's no abutters encroaching, and the second trackbed is very much a part of the viaduct structure. Should the need arise for it, it could be put back. What's missing is just rails and ties -- and those are easily replaced.

Rotting infrastructure is something like the Newtown Branch or the 23.

Understood, but those things have been discussed here ad nauseum.

I thought I heard somwhere that there was a plan to eventually rebuild the second track for freight. One of those sometime in the foreseeable but not near future projects...