SEPTA Rt 100 CTA Car @ Hughes Park

Watch a recently received ex CTA 2-car train run south by the Hughes Park station in 1988

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[RDG484]

And *NO* headlight?

[rdg2124]

Yep. Guess they were trying to save juice?

[busoperator1]

RDG484, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for defending the HONOR of the Rt.100 Line. I WANT TO TEAR A NEW ONE IN PEOPLE WHO CALLS THIS LINE A TROLLEY LINE. Im a Rt. 100 Operator, and the same controls that the El (N4 Car) has, the Rt.100 (N5 Car) has.The centerstine, or the controller, p4 p3 p2 p1 and b7 b5 b4 and coast. Both Train cars, N5 and N4 has the same. and yet, we go up to 75 miles per hour! and we are a trolley line? I even hear the news call us a trolley. WTF!!!!!!!

[busoperator1]

They changed the sign to High Speed Station. I pissed a Bitch when I saw that they put that disgrace of a sign up there

[ETrain919]

When I take this line, I see these cars at the 69th street shop rusting. Nice vid

[DeltaPhi79]

Never seen those before. lol

[nyshortline]

That's nothing. When my wife and her sister ran in the Cure For Cancer 10k race on Broad St. about a month or so ago they referred to the Broad St. Subway as a trolley ("We have to ride the trolley up to Olney Ave.").

[RDG484]

In fact it gets even better: I remember talking to someone in Southern NJ and she told me about ".....the trolley or whatever that you catch in Haddonfield that takes you to Philly."  Also some people refer to the NJT RiverLINE as a trolley (Yes, the RiverLINE!!!) because it runs through the streets of Camden in streetcar fashion.

[RDG484]

Beleive it or not the Rockhill Trolley Museum's brochure as of a few years ago described the Liberty Liner as "Our Largest Trolley." How do you call a 4-section articulated TRAIN a trolley? The Pioneer Zephyr and the City of Salina were both 1 section LESS than the Liberty Liners and they were NEVER called trolleys!! Just goes to show you.

[RDG484]

Where else but on SEPTA can something start out as a trolley, get rebuilt as a subway/elevated car, only to go back to being called a trolley again while still looking like a subway/elevated car and still running on third rail trackage?

Only in Philly........:>/

[RDG484]

You're very welcome. In fact like I mentioned in an earlier post in this thread that the Rt. 100 line was the Philadelphia & Western RAILROAD. Only when SEPTA took the line over in 1970 did they start successfully conning the newsmedia into beleiving that it became a "High-Speed Trolley." In fact SEPTA's management is still VERY adament in beleiving that it IS INDEED a trolley line and not a railroad. Or else KYW 1060 and the TV news channels would be calling it something other than trolley.

[RDG484]

In fact I remember one occasion when a CTA pair derailed and the incident was on the local news, which said "SEPTA Trolley Derailment Snarls Service." Then they show the front of a CTA car with its front trucks on the ground, somewhere near 69th St.

So where was the trolley? Just goes to show you....