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 16, 2018 | Miles on the MBTA
Time for an SRTA route that actually goes somewhere! Today, we’ll be taking the NB 11 out of New Bedford into Fairhaven, which is…a town. That has a very deviation-filled bus route. Ouch. Not my best photo. Now, there is a very convenient bridge straight...
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 the MBTA
This is more like it! I was able to get one of the NB 2 trips that serves Melville Towers – an occurrence that happens only once every two hours. Of course, this is only one of a few random extra deviations that happen on this route, and the rest happen...
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,...
