Passenger Trains > transit in the snow

Cherry Hill, NJ; from PATCO (Lindenwold High Speed Line) Woodcrest station, Tuesday Dec 22
2,3. NJTransit Atlantic City Line train 4616

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4. SEPTA Market Street El eastbound train departed 52nd Street station with westbound train at the platform; Philadelphia
5. Upper Darby, PA; Monsignor Bonner/Bishop Pendergast High School: Kawasaki LRV 119 on Route 101 Media Local
6. Norristown High Speedline; inbound ariving at Bryn Mawr station

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7. Philadelphia Museum of Art; HHP-8 662 with train 125
8. SEPTA Silverliner IV 422, SL III 222 and SL II 205 east of 30th Street Station
9. SL II 218

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I'd hate to be a kid who had to explain that high school name with the trolley passing by!.

stone23 Wrote:
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> I'd hate to be a kid who had to explain that high
> school name with the trolley passing by!.

It's two high schools. Bonner is boys and Pendergast is girls.

chuchubob Wrote:
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> stone23 Wrote:
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> > I'd hate to be a kid who had to explain that
> high
> > school name with the trolley passing by!.
>
> It's two high schools. Bonner is boys and
> Pendergast is girls.

Sorry, but it only looks like one building to me. My high school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio served two cities (including University Heights) but had only one name! ONWARD "HEIGHTS HIGH"!!! My favorite sport at that school was watching the Cedar Ave. streetcar line cars pass by!

Yes I know we are off the track and the pix are great as usual!!

That LVANIA lettering on 218 caught my eye--that car must be at least 40 years old. For Halloween it should have TRANS added to the letterboard. It certainly testifies to the longevity of electric railway cars. It reminded my of my first visit to Philadelphia in 1971, when the Paoli Locals were still using the MP54 cars. They had been recommended to me by fans familiar with that area (I was and am a Southern Californian), so I boarded one of these relics for a short trip. The conductor saw my cameras and asked, "How old do you think these cars are?" I guessed mid 1920's, because I had just come from Chicago, where I had ridden the Illinois Central electric service cars from that era. "Nope, they were built in 1912." This would put them in the same age bracket as two of the Pacific Electric "Blimps" and wooden interurban 1001 at Orange Empire, and they were still in regular service nearly 60 years later.

DNRY122 Wrote:
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> That LVANIA lettering on 218 caught my eye--that
> car must be at least 40 years old...

Built for the Pennsylvania Railroad by the Budd Company in 1962.

DNRY122 Wrote:
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> That LVANIA lettering on 218 caught my eye--that
> car must be at least 40 years old. For Halloween
> it should have TRANS added to the letterboard. It
> certainly testifies to the longevity of electric
> railway cars. It reminded my of my first visit to
> Philadelphia in 1971, when the Paoli Locals were
> still using the MP54 cars. They had been
> recommended to me by fans familiar with that area
> (I was and am a Southern Californian), so I
> boarded one of these relics for a short trip. The
> conductor saw my cameras and asked, "How old do
> you think these cars are?" I guessed mid 1920's,
> because I had just come from Chicago, where I had
> ridden the Illinois Central electric service cars
> from that era. "Nope, they were built in 1912."
> This would put them in the same age bracket as two
> of the Pacific Electric "Blimps" and wooden
> interurban 1001 at Orange Empire, and they were
> still in regular service nearly 60 years later.

I loved the MP54's.
Radnor, PA; 1974

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