by Miles Taylor | Dec 31, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
I think most of us can agree that in the grand scheme of things, 2018 was not a great year. It feels fitting to close it off with a long, crazy route that doesn’t really go anywhere (at least not quickly) and makes way too many deviations for its own good. Hi,...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 26, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Anyone who’s read my Boston content knows that I love trackless trolleys. I was bound to take a SEPTA one pretty early on. The 66 is the longest and most suburban of the three trackless trolley routes in Philly, running from Frankford Transportation Center on a...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 23, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Once upon a time, Philadelphia was planning on building a loop line around Center City. The Broad-Ridge Spur was built off of the Broad Street Line to the busy department stores at 8th and Market, then onwards to 16th and Locust. Now, there’s no money to...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 15, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
I’ve chased the fox all the way to the end of the Fox Chase Line, and now it’s time to review its last stop! Okay, well, that was a terrible intro. Ahem…Fox Chase Station. On the platform. Fox Chase has three platforms split between two tracks. Since...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 12, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
SEPTA is retiring its oldest kind of Regional Rail locomotive, but they gave it one last ride two weekends ago. A free express trip from Paoli to Suburban and back was run for the general public two weekends ago, and it was a lot of fun (save for some rabid railfans,...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 11, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
I filmed this back in September and finally got around to finishing the editing. As it turns out, getting to upstate New York is not easy to do on a...
