@busoperator1 I'm a local. I know it's not a trolley, pretty much everyone who rides it knows it's not a trolley, but everyone calls it a trolley anyway. "Trolley" is a lot less of a mouthful than "Route 100 High Speed Line." It's just local slang, or vernacular if "slang" isn't intelligent enough a word for you.
@busoperator1 What would you call it, though? A lot of the locals call it a "trolley" to differentiate it from from R5 "train", especially since they share station names, like Villanova, Radnor, Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford.
@Bastranz its a high speed third rail train. the locals are a bunch of retards! trolleys run in the streets along side with regular street traffic, and they have a overhead wife along with a pole. the 100 is a third rail powered train with its own railway. before septa took it over, it was called the philadelphia western railroad.
Call them trolleys all you want but just bear in mind that before SEPTA took this line over from Red Arrow in 1970 this was a RAILROAD that operated passenger and freight TRAINS. After the last on-line industry stopped its railroad deliveries, the line was isolated from the outside world, therefore no longer requiring FRA control and then instantly became a trolley operation. Multi-car trains were abolished in favor of more frequent single cars and fares were collected in fareboxes instead...
....of collecting tickets on board as was done before. The abolishment of railroad rules both here and on the Fox Chase-Newtown line had, let's just say, less-than-desirable results in the 1980's.
lol looks like u copy and pasted that info or you have a good memory lol? Anyway where was the original connection the freight line entered the P&W at.
The P&W connected with the Pennsy at Strafford, Swedeland (north of Hughes Park), and 69th St. By the late 1960's only the connection at 69th St. remained. It was by this connection that the P&W received all it's MU equipment and the Liners.
connection at 69th street how???? the only train i kno that ran out of 69th street was the El that ran on the PRT lines, pennsylvania railroad train went to 69th street??
That's right. when you ride the El from 69th St. to Millbourne you will see an abandoned ROW to the left. This was the Cardington branch that ran from 69th St. to the Newtown Square branch, which ran into the current SEPTA Media-Elwyn line at Fernwood. The Cardington branch went under Market St. right before 63rd St.
OOOOOhh!!!!! but wait im still confused?? though, if u look close enough to it, I noticed i saw an old broken up third rail their but i read up about and they said after the P&W trains left 69th street they went down track for a little while then reveresed direction, Now my question is did the P&W and PRR shared this track, and did this row track once connected to the that little spur track on the 100 line thats sits next to the terminal where usually one or two trains are stored at??
The P&W and PRR shared a short stretch where they interchanged freight, and yes it does connect to that spur track you mentioned. If you watch the YouTube video about the Electroliners being delivered the P&W it shows that interchange track in use.
@busoperator1 I'm a local. I know it's not a trolley, pretty much everyone who rides it knows it's not a trolley, but everyone calls it a trolley anyway. "Trolley" is a lot less of a mouthful than "Route 100 High Speed Line." It's just local slang, or vernacular if "slang" isn't intelligent enough a word for you.
jediraptor07 1 year ago
I really think it is pure ignorance to call thr rt.100 line a trolley. it is not a trolley!
busoperator1 2 years ago
@busoperator1 What would you call it, though? A lot of the locals call it a "trolley" to differentiate it from from R5 "train", especially since they share station names, like Villanova, Radnor, Rosemont, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford.
Bastranz 1 year ago
@Bastranz its a high speed third rail train. the locals are a bunch of retards! trolleys run in the streets along side with regular street traffic, and they have a overhead wife along with a pole. the 100 is a third rail powered train with its own railway. before septa took it over, it was called the philadelphia western railroad.
busoperator1 1 year ago
@busoperator1 i been taking it since birth and its always been called the trolley.
JennelleBelle 1 year ago
@JennelleBelle jenn trust me, it is not a trolley
busoperator1 1 year ago
I was on one of these trolleys not too long ago and the driver told everybody to get off Bryn Marr and I thikn this is the same one...
dekablueranger 3 years ago
Call them trolleys all you want but just bear in mind that before SEPTA took this line over from Red Arrow in 1970 this was a RAILROAD that operated passenger and freight TRAINS. After the last on-line industry stopped its railroad deliveries, the line was isolated from the outside world, therefore no longer requiring FRA control and then instantly became a trolley operation. Multi-car trains were abolished in favor of more frequent single cars and fares were collected in fareboxes instead...
RDG484 3 years ago
....of collecting tickets on board as was done before. The abolishment of railroad rules both here and on the Fox Chase-Newtown line had, let's just say, less-than-desirable results in the 1980's.
RDG484 3 years ago
lol looks like u copy and pasted that info or you have a good memory lol? Anyway where was the original connection the freight line entered the P&W at.
vze428s7 3 years ago
The P&W connected with the Pennsy at Strafford, Swedeland (north of Hughes Park), and 69th St. By the late 1960's only the connection at 69th St. remained. It was by this connection that the P&W received all it's MU equipment and the Liners.
RDG484 3 years ago
connection at 69th street how???? the only train i kno that ran out of 69th street was the El that ran on the PRT lines, pennsylvania railroad train went to 69th street??
vze428s7 3 years ago
That's right. when you ride the El from 69th St. to Millbourne you will see an abandoned ROW to the left. This was the Cardington branch that ran from 69th St. to the Newtown Square branch, which ran into the current SEPTA Media-Elwyn line at Fernwood. The Cardington branch went under Market St. right before 63rd St.
RDG484 3 years ago
OOOOOhh!!!!! but wait im still confused?? though, if u look close enough to it, I noticed i saw an old broken up third rail their but i read up about and they said after the P&W trains left 69th street they went down track for a little while then reveresed direction, Now my question is did the P&W and PRR shared this track, and did this row track once connected to the that little spur track on the 100 line thats sits next to the terminal where usually one or two trains are stored at??
vze428s7 3 years ago
The P&W and PRR shared a short stretch where they interchanged freight, and yes it does connect to that spur track you mentioned. If you watch the YouTube video about the Electroliners being delivered the P&W it shows that interchange track in use.
RDG484 3 years ago
what station did this happen at?
SROSELLI 3 years ago
@SROSELLI Rosemont Station, "inbound" platform.
Bastranz 1 year ago
I think this was the car that struck a baby stroller, which is why it caught fire.
RDG484 3 years ago
how exactly the route 100 got on fire?
d2e2n2n2i2s2 4 years ago
WHAT THE F$#K?!
videonut33 4 years ago
Hey - where's the rest of it (with Matt's maniacal laughter in the background...)??
Cheers,
Jeppe.
vonplatz 4 years ago