Passenger Trains > 66 minutes at North Philadelphia Wednesday

1, 2. 4:00 PM: Keystone Service train 649, a rare Amtrak train stopping at North Philly station
3. SEPTA train 9741 to Trenton

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4. train 94
5,6. Acela Express train 2163

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7, 8. NS 38G on Conrail Delair Branch
9. NJ Transit Atlantic City Line train 4628
 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/17 04:51 by chuchubob.

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10. SEPTA train 754
11. train 85
12. SEPTA train 743 and the former North Philadelphia station

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13, 14. Acela train 2170: I missed the front of train 97 Silver Meteor, blocked by train 2170.
15. Heritage diner on train 97

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16. AMTK 62003 Augusta and 62002 Atlanta deadheading to Hialeah
17. train 173
18. train 7250

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19, 20. train 4635 to Atlantic City
21. train 839 to Chestnut Hill West

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22, 23. Acela train 2167
24. train 4630 at 5:05

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Greate pics.....nice to see freight on the corridor. How many Delair tracks are there?

Thanks for posting these. That has always been a great spot to see passenger trains. Gerry

The Delair Branch is single track.  It connects with the NEC at Frankford Junction.

Word on the street is that the area is "dangerous". Did you feel at all like you were in danger?

North Philly station is one of my favorite spots.  I don't railfan there at night.  I've never felt unsafe there during the day.

Great set! Too bad you got blocked on the Florida train; that would've been a nice one.

Andy

39G going east into Camden ???

What a great series of photos!
Without going back thru all of them, there must be over a half dozen rail car/engine manufacturers represented!

Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> 39G going east into Camden ???

Thanks for pointing out the typo, which has been corrected.

North Philly was my go-to spot for train watching - 55 years ago. I used to drag my dad out to the far east end of the westbound platform (which was then across Broad Street) so we could get the full effect of the GG-1's coming in at a decent speed. The platform was really narrow at the end, so it was pretty impressive to have those monsters come flying by just a couple of feet away.

Is the present station accessible from the south side where the shops are now? The north side looks a bit foreboding.

Awesome variety of equipment, and there's even a freight. That's a lot of traffic for an hour.

Nathan

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prr60 Wrote:
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> Is the present station accessible from the south
> side where the shops are now? The north side
> looks a bit foreboding.

A walk-through tunnel connects stairways to both platforms from both north and south sides.