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Posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Jun 12 01:06:50 2025 As I noted in my previous video post, despite living in the area for all my life I had never attended any of the several streetcar charters the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys puts on every year. One of the reasons was that I have attended numerous trips arranged by the Enemies of Philadelphia Trolleys, aka SEPTA, and with the complete revenue streetcar system under my belt I didn't feel much urgency to pay extra money for a few staged photoshoots. Well, for whatever reason the announcement of an April 2024 charter featuring LEV #9000, the leading member of the K-Car LRV's, in a special "Day 1" heritage paint scheme caught my eye and I signed up. What followed was a great day with great people and great weather. I almost have too many good photos to post ( mirror ), but I'll do my best to pare things down a bit.The charter was scheduled for a Sunday to avoid disrupting service, this also meant #9000 had plenty of company in the Elmwood depot yard before the trip kicked off.    PCC 2 cars for the Route 15 were on track #25, including #2330 seen here. At this point the Route 15 trolleys were still out of service, but would return later in the year.  View inside the inspection and light repair shoppe while hitting the restroom before the charter kicked off.  The first staged photo op of the day was #9000 pulling out of Elmwood depot onto what is normally the Route 36.  >The event was well attended and at $60 was a pretty good deal.  The first stop was the Route 11 terminus at the Darby Loop, reached via a short stretch of non-revenue track that crosses under the NEC before a left hand turn onto the Route 11 at the site of the historic Blue Belle tavern, which had been hit be a runaway streetcar the previous year. Note the black Dodge pickup. This was a chase vehicle that followed #9000 over the surface portions of the trip.  At the Darby Loop, LRV #9020, in revenue service, held short so that the railfans could get their photos before being allowed to pass on the bypass track.  #9000 seen here pulling out of the loop and posing for another photo.  Low angle of #9000 crossing the CSX Philly Sub in Darby.  Trip organizers stop traffic so that the trip participants could get another posed photo near 60th St where the Route 11 re-crossoes the CSX Philly Sub on an overhead bridge.  Speaking of, there was quite a bit of congestion on the Philly Sub as a manifest freight on track #1 held short of 58TH ST interlocking while a NYC garbage train was holding things up on track #2.  We didn't get very far before the next photo stop near 52nd St where #9000 met an opposing Route 11 streetcar, #9008.  The next stop was the 40th St trolley portal where #9000 discharged the attendees to #9088 to head down the Route 34 before taking a spin on the circle track, before #9002 showed up on a revenue Route 13 run.      Next up was an express run through the downtown Subway Surface tunnel, followed by a photo stop at 13th St.  This was followed by a brief race with a normally "express" MFL train, which we ultimately won when it had to make the 30th St stop. After this the #9000 exited the tunnel at the Route 10 36th St portal to pose for another photo.  From there the charter proceeded to the infrequently used 54th St turnback on the Route 10. This is located near the site of the old 52nd St passenger station on the former PRR Main Line.  While getting set up for a runby, Amtrak's westbound Pennsylvanian Train 43 passed by in the distance.  Here is #9000 waiting for #9076 on an inbound Route 10 run to pass by before exiting the 54th St turnback and passing #9051 heading in the opposite direction towards the Malvern loop.    Near Powelton #9000 posed with some blooming cherry trees.  After second run through the trolley tunnel, the charter stopped briefly at 30th St station to get a photo of #9000 with the lead member of the in-house SEPTA design team that had worked closely with Kawasaki to make the LRV's some of the best equipment SEPTA ever purchased.  The trip then set out on the Route 34th with a photo stop at the Angora Loop.   The photo line then repositioned itself to catch #9000 exiting the loop and then turning back onto Baltimore Pike.      Up next were a pair of photo stops on the 58th St diversion track at Warrington Ave and Regent St.   After a spin around the Woodlawn heavy overhaul depot the charter made a left off 58th St and onto the Route 13 towards Darby. An approaching inbound R3 Wawa train with Silverliner IV #336 resulted in a spur of the moment photo-op on the bridge over the 49th St station.   The photo stop was a bit rushed because we were kind of blocking revenue service, but after everyone re-boarded I got this photo of outbound LRV #9027 passing inbound car #9002, which you might remember from the 40th St portal stop.  Since we had already been to Darby, the charter short turned at the Mt. Moriah Loop for another photo stop. Unfortunately we kinda forgot to reset the loop entry switch for #9027.    After departing the loop time was getting short so the charter hightailed it back to the 58th St diversion track, however after pulling off the Route 13, we found time for one more photo stop.  Due to needing to catch another train I couldn't stay for the Elmwood shoppe tour and so I'll end with this photo of K-Car #9003 on the Route 36 returning me to centre city.  As you can see this was a superb trip. The weather was perfect, #900 looked great and I want to give a special shout out to Bill Monaghan, who has been the mover and shaker behind these events for many decades. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 12 09:59:51 2025, in response to PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Jun 12 01:06:50 2025. LOL@ “Enemies of Philadelphia Trolleys.” |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by chicagoMotorman on Thu Jun 12 13:44:42 2025, in response to PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Jun 12 01:06:50 2025. Cool. It's time for another visit. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jun 12 16:16:43 2025, in response to PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Jun 12 01:06:50 2025. Will be sad to see the Kawasakis go versus the Citadis monstrosities coming in. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jun 12 18:39:36 2025, in response to PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Jun 12 01:06:50 2025. IINM Philadelphia uses 5'2.5" gauge and Pittsburgh uses 5'2.25" gauge. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Fri Jun 13 01:29:30 2025, in response to Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jun 12 18:39:36 2025. Correct AFAIK, but even more abstruse, the Market El is wide but iinm Broad Street Sub standard.My memory of the history is that the city of Phildelphia wanted to prevent freight from the mainline RRs ever being on the street railways. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Fri Jun 13 06:53:25 2025, in response to Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Thu Jun 12 18:39:36 2025. I believe that difference is considered to be compatible. |
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Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Sun Jun 15 09:32:59 2025, in response to Re: PHOTOS: FoPT #9000 HERITAGE TRIP, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Jun 12 09:59:51 2025. IAWTP |
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