Philadelphia Trolleys

[blackmale78]

Good ol red white and blue!!! Its great how people shot this footage and how we are looking at it many years later enjoying it!

[donsande2]

I liked that red, white, and blue trolley with the stars.

[Worldsofwonder2007]

Thanks! I remember those Bicentennial Cars! LOL at the Channel 10 news billboard with Larry Kane!

[adelgado75]

How did SEPTA manage to keep it's trolley system when other cities scrapped theirs?

[johnq48]

I believe PCC cars still run in the city but not on this route, which is now a bus route (see comments below).

[drigin1234]

Wonderful film

Do these cars still run in the city?

[largefrog19036]

It was a sin to see the way SEPTA painted the trolleys back then. They looked like clowns. Anyhow, the problem with the 23 trolley is morons parking on the tracks and blocking the trolley. In 1985, I was repairing a payphone on Germantown ave when the trolleys began backing up and ringing their bells. About 10 minutes later, a supervisor showed up in a blg ol Chevy Blazer with a push bumper. He pushed the offending car into the curb so hard, it blew the car's right front tire. It was beautiful!

[mickthemacdaddy]

SEPTA has never, and will never, give into the demands of neither the public nor honest lawmakers. You will never see the 23 nor 56 as trolley lines again, nor will you see the 29 and 79 as trackless trolley lines again.

[mickthemacdaddy]

SEPTA has never, and will never, give into the demands of neither the public nor honest lawmakers. You will never see the 23 nor 56 as trolley lines again, nor will you see the 29 and 79 as trackless trolleys again. The only reason why they brought the 15 trolley line back was because of Federal funding.

[traceling]

I was still living in Philly at that time, and riding the 23 regularly. I'd forgotten that at least one car was repainted for the Bicentennial. Thanks for posting this.

[gusneaker]

Hi, has Philly ever stopped streetcar service? Thanks for the video!

[stevefromPA2]

@gusneaker Septa disbanded the majority of the surface trolley lines in the the late 1990s...the 15 is the last surviving surface only service. However there are still 5 subway surface routes running in west philly and southwest philly

[gusneaker]

Hi, has Philly ever stopped streetcar service?

[TrollHiredOn4Chan]

DAMN Killadelphia.

[krizvasa]

How much km of tracks were deleted? How does tram network look like now?

[BOOGE64]

@krizvasa The tram network only consists of the five subway-surface routes 10,11,13,34,36 and the all surface route 15 which was reactivated with rebuilt PCC's a few years ago.

[Tubes12AX7k]

It looks like this is in South Philly around 10th and Bigler. I saw the stadium in the background at one point. Nice video.

[LindaDooWop]

What happy memories! I grew up there!

[jaquanarezoo]

Dam i hate septa with a passion they wiped the north philly streetcars like route 23 of the map.

[mpjrdldn]

The first clips must have been old. I remember buses that were red and green in the '50's and early '60's, before SEPTA was formed. Thank goodness there are still at least two trolley lines in the City of Philadelphia.

[RDG484]

I remember riding those ex-Kansas City cars as a teenager. Rode an air car on the 23 and a KC car on the 50.

[glennofootscray]

Ah, cigarette ads on public transport, how retro, damn thought police

[nanlisa]

I was in San Francisco on that day, and the next day, I flew down to L.A.

[nanlisa]

Was this filmed in either early, mid, or late May. I was in California the first two weeks of that May.

[johnq48]

It was filmed on Wednesday 6 May - I checked the notebook I kept.

[BestObamaVideos]

keep those trolley videos coming love it

[ajlordnikon]

It's neat to see one of those ex-KC cars in the bicentennial paint. we had 15 of them sitting up the street from my house at the MMID in Union Bridge, until they finally had therm hauled off on flatbeds.

[mi2026]

thanks

[adelgado75]

Excellent video.

[Jayayess1190]

It's crazy how so much has changed in only 25 years! Nice video.

[Jayayess1190]

27 years.

[johnq48]

Yes, I have not been back since but I understand this route is now operated by buses.

[Jayayess1190]

Yes it is. Right now the Rt.23 bus is on detour because they are putting back the trolley tracks in Chestnut Hill. Maybe the trolleys might come back?

[bustitution]

I hope so!

[intheupperroom]

Good trolley video.