Hurt dem ears for this one!

What not to do when riding the Broad St. Subway!!

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[d2e2n2n2i2s2]

did ya ears hurt though?

[ENYoriginal]

It hurted for about a 1/2 hour! I mean, something that day on the wheel or track completely wore out...probably lack of grease...hmm...

Whatever the case is, ain't no NYC subway wheel/track combo could get louder than what SEPTA offered.

[dahood07]

this reminds of of the NYC subway. i didnt know philadelphia had a subway!

[italobambino43]

I have heard people in Philly refer to it as either, the El or the elevated, it is an elevated railroad after all, I have an old post card from 1904 showing the 42nd. street station in West Philly , the card heading reads: Philadelphia's Elevated railroad, I guess it was a big deal in those days to have an El, so, they put it on a post card.

[ChaseThatTornado67]

@dahood07 yeah

[56yuoi]

@sonicboy678 yeah you are right it does make sense.

[sonicboy678]

@56yuoi When you think about it, though, it makes some sense.

[starchedownon84s]

@dahood07 bite us S.E.P.T.A Fans 

[italobambino43]

The city has the Taylor plan available for viewing, in the Archives department, I saw it in the 80's, they were bold, there was a subway interchange under City Hall that would have been a railfans dream. There are tracks for a subway under Arch street it runs several blockes west of second street, Im not sure for how long, it was for a subway that would go to Southwest Philly.

[italobambino43]

The PRT was headed by a man named Thomas Mitten, he was appointed in 1911, Mitten's improvements starting with replacing the older fleet of streecars with the new Nearside cars, aka Peter witt cars, one of his appointees was named Taylor, that is the man whom you refer to, one of Taylor's plans came to be. The Broad Street Subway for one. Sears on the Roosevelt Blvd. had a station built in the basement, yet, opposition from local residents for the subway lead to it's demise.

[italobambino43]

No, they arent building new lines, they are planning to replace certain old and worn out lines, expanding them in certain areas to improve service, it will be one of the biggest projects in New York since the subway was constructed.

[italobambino43]

First of all those curves leading in and out of the Fern rock station and shops are pretty tight curves, and I do not know if you ever rode on the old-original pre WW2 cars ? Your ears would have fallen the F off bro. The cars I refer to you may have noticed were sitting in the rail yard when you rode around the loop, I saw a glimpse of them, that is all that remains of the old fleet, I rode them to school in the 80's, then they finally scrapped them for the Kawasaki's, they used to smoke up to.