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...
by Miles Taylor | Dec 4, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Trolley stations tend to be samey, so I’m combining these two into one post. This is the part of SEPTA where the El runs express in the center two tracks and the trolleys make these two local stops on the outer tracks, leading anyone passing through to think...
by Miles Taylor | Nov 25, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Of the South Philly Broad Street Line stops, Snyder is the one I’ve used the most so far. I’ve ridden both the 37 and the 79 a number of times (the latter’s review is in the pipeline, but I’m waiting for it to get the electric buses it’s...
