SEPTA Trolley Line 56 Spring 1992

This was the last year for streetcars on this line.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• SEPTA
• Trolley
• Line
• 56
• Spring
• 1992

[donsande2]

I hated when septa cancelled all the north philly trolley routes

[thedarkchild86]

THERE WILL NEVER BE A 56 TROLLEY LINE AGAIN .... THEY (SEPTA) PAVED OVER THE TROLLEY TRACKS FROM TORRESDALE AND FRANKFORD AVE TO TORRESDASLE AND COTTMAN AVE .... R.I.P. 56 TROLLEY

[eyestoenvy]

LOVED it. These things should be running on all major avenue's, connecting to Center City, the airport, and the major transit hubs & subways... Dependable, reliable.. and spurring economic growth along their secured routes (unlike buses). Philadelphia is sitting on a gold mine and doesn't even know it..

[homedad40]

I love the streetcars on the rails

[geneking7320]

Extra bonus of the "Almond Joy" Budd cars on the MFSE in the background at the end. Great video! When I last visited Philly it was in 1999. I was speaking with a MFSE motorman at 69th and told him the last time I rode a Philadelphia trolley on Market St was 1996 in San Francisco :-).

[6fthondaboi]

Damn this takes me back. My dad used to run these trolleys out of luzurne depot.

[howardkevinm]

i think trolleys are better. it helps the environment. i read that these used sandpaper to stop

[JHand04]

@stevefromPA2 That's true. SEPTA also said somewhere along the line that service might be restores to some the long-abandoned trolley routes. The Route 15 trolley line's been the only one put back into action so far. the 23 was set to return its trolleys back in 2002 but it's still mostly a bus route..

[stevefromPA2]

I was gettin ready to ask, wasnt this the last year...they claim that Pcc2s will be running back on the line..but its septa..who knows..and when they purchased only 115 kawasaki cars in 1981, that was begining of the end of surface trolley service..Officially the death of the Pcc..