Septa SL5 RFW Philadelphia to Warminster on newly upgraded trackage. 11/7/24

[@jmbrendan53]

Any transit system is so lucky to have you grace their system. thank you for the content my friend. Jack from maple shade nj

[@benzzc3626]

When SEPTA took over, the track speed on this entire line was 25 MPH. Now it's mostly 50.

[@cxb262]

Nice to see my home line get a bit of love. Never seen it from the "foamer" window before. 😜Used to ride it weekly down to Wilmington when they still ran R2s end-to-end to get to work. One place I know you missed mentioning was the former Fulmor station, and was more or less a flag stop IIRC. It was located right between the rail bridge and the Warminster Road crossing. That one shut down in the '90s.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

1991.

[@00Zy99]

I'm pretty sure that all of the catenary portals from Wayne Junction South to the tunnel were replaced as part of the RailWorks projects back in the early 1990s.

[@3985uprr]

Most likely, but they still have that Reading look

[@00Zy99]

@@3985uprr Oh, yeah. No denying that. In typical SEPTA fashion, they look pretty much identical to what was there before. It KIND OF makes sense when you think about it. SEPTA has the blueprints on file, and designing new ones would cost money. Why not go with what works?

[@Nurvington]

Another great ride! I always enjoy your SEPTA visits.

[@3985uprr]

Thanks much

[@scottyerkes1867]

Nice ride to Warminster! The right of way looks great! Thanks Tim.👍👍😀😀👌👌🚊🚊

[@stuartaaron613]

Nice ride Tim. Thank you for the video.

[@PhilipMulligan]

On Nov 8, we met the Reading commerative car on a Chestnut Hill West (PRR) train at N. Phila, going outbound. That accounts for all three of them. Not bad for 50 year old cars.

[@nolantherailfan5048]

Septa has already launched an Expression of Interest for the Silverliner 6 with all the performance details. It is still very early in development though, and nobody knows what the Silverliner 6 will look like or who will even build them. However, it's obviously not going to be Hyundai Rotem after the disaster with the Silverliner 5.

[@3985uprr]

Not the greatest quality car but very close to my heart nevertheless. I’ll enjoy them while they are still around

[@nolantherailfan5048]

@@3985uprr I'm afraid it's not gonna be much longer as New Jersey transit has already unveiled the Multilevel III's are basically self propelled EMU versions of the multilevel cars they use with their ALP45's and 46's designed to replace the arrow III's on the Gladstone branch, Northeast Corridor line, and Princeton dinky

[@jbreezy101]

I sure hope Hyundai is not considered

[@nolantherailfan5048]

@@jbreezy101 I doubt they will after the mess it took to build the 5's

[@nolantherailfan5048]

@@3985uprrI think that the silverliner 6 is going to be the Kawasaki M8. Septa has considered it as a viable option. The M8 has proven itself to be very reliable on Metro North's New Haven line. Septas will be modified slightly like having doors that can accommodate low level platforms as septa has a mixture of both high and low level platforms.

[@2READYCRETE]

There was a spring switch at Roslyn station

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

So you were up in my neck of the woods!

[@thomaspaul3923]

Thanks for doing such a great job!

[@3985uprr]

Thanks for watching!

[@nickcef]

Was great to hear you used to ride the Budd cars up to Reading from North Broad back in the day. I used to ride that route back in the '70s as a kid. At 16th Street, was that where the tracks divided to head up to Norristown and Reading? If they will ever restart service, I wonder if that's where the train will come in to go to Philly.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

An interesting head-end ride! Thanks! Maybe it's ust this line but it strikes me NJ Transit moves a lot more vigorously than SEPTA does. This train was slow!

[@yaggy9]

Two months of shuttle bussing was drudgery, glad my branch is back to full service and better than ever. Now if only I wasn't held up half the time at the Ardsley curve waiting for the inbound service to clear the single track. Thanks for your videos.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

SEPTA never should have taken out the double track, which used to end just south of Roslyn station.

[@2READYCRETE]

I remember a Crestmont Local that ran at night during rush hour, usual equipment was 6 old blues

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

Love Jefferson station, wish more US cities had stations like it. I hope Boston will follow in Phillys footsteps and connect both lines and have one big regional line.. one day

[@bradfordtownley9363]

Don't hold your breath 😊

[@2READYCRETE]

Crestmont station had an automatic signal in both directions

[@2READYCRETE]

Its been yeatlrs since I been on that RR, and everything has changed. . No more Chelten Hills siding where Jenk South is, , no more siding on the Northbound side in Glenside station

[@jbreezy101]

42:08 used to be a station there: Fulmor

[@2READYCRETE]

I remember when 5ye GEs were brand new in 74 and 76

[@hornshowrailfan2554]

Woohoo he is back!

[@00Zy99]

@26:15 That's a substation, not a power plant.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Warminster opened in 1974.

[@johnconnolly6011]

Did they trim those trees after seeing what happened in new jersey?

[@jbreezy101]

24:52 no work began on the new platform I see. Ugh

[@carltonkeys6205]

It rained in Lehigh Valley today

[@Touchybanana]

I see you either removed or hid that video with Engineer Bill in the Silverliner IVs.

[@3985uprr]

I will do further rides with him on Silverliner 5’s

[@AirplaneJunkie82]

Bill Rollins? Never heard of him

[@3985uprr]

Rollin.

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

15:30 what was that announcement about?

[@nathanielcoleman5694]

The Silverliner Vs have always been the nicest looking cars on SEPTA, but they’re incredibly unreliable. If 50-year old cars are outperforming them in reliability, something about them is terribly wrong. Idk if Hyundai Rotem built them cheaply, if SEPTA poorly maintains them, etc., but SEPTA needs to either give them a severe rebuild or just replace them with whatever they’ll use to replace the IVs. They can’t keep the IVs in service forever.

[@3985uprr]

I must say the SV4’s impress me with what they can do after 50 years. Yes, the SV5’s have issues but to me they are very special. I can understand the criticism of them though.

[@nolantherailfan5048]

@@3985uprr Septa has already begun looking for a replacement for the 4's. They released an EOI for the Silverliner 6 a few days ago. It is still very early in the process so there isn't a lot we don't know. We don't even know what they'll look like or who will even build them. We all know Hyundai Rotem isn't going to build them because of the disastrous adventure it took to build the Silverliner 5's with the design delays, contract disputes, and the final assembly plant needing to be built in South Philly which delayed their delivery from 2005 to 2010.

[@jetfixer170]

What makes the signal at GROVE SOUTH non-conforming? Is it placement along the ROW?

[@3985uprr]

It means that it is not on the engineers side of the right of way. Most of the time they are.

[@DJSalDellaPia]

@RetiredRailfanHornGuy what airline did you work for?

[@3985uprr]

British Airways

[@DJSalDellaPia]

@@3985uprr 19 Years USAir/USAirways 1988-2007

[@Willy-y1c]

Can you make an PM rush hour at Farmigdale please

[@3985uprr]

Dark now

[@tjburke19811981]

Sweet!

[@TheMegaFranBoy]

Yep it is! The Silverliner 5 annunciation is the Susan Siri Voice which reads of course my planned Facebook posts on my MacBook Pro!

[@kevinb8881]

Tim, I agree, US-1 is much safer to travel on than I-95!!

[@3985uprr]

Both bad around there

[@walkaboutboy72]

Do all the septa trains have rail fan windows at the front?

[@3985uprr]

The SV5’s do. The 4’s you can stand behind the door if the engineer doesn’t mind.

[@jbreezy101]

46:13 s end of pa-332

[@NYG2012]

14:19. That's a approach. Not advance approach.

[@3985uprr]

It was flashing

[@3985uprr]

Yes. I verified that with a reliable source.

[@Juniordetroit12116]

Advance Approach to a clear. Had that on my signal quiz today.

[@3985uprr]

@@Juniordetroit12116 if you’re talking about Wayne Junction, that was actually an approach, not an advanced approach. I put that in my comments because I had made a mistake with that.

[@NYG2012]

@RCM_II it's a dwarf signal. If it was a tall one. Then it will be advance approach

[@michaellittlejohns7968]

Silver liner 4s are soon to be called silver liner boxer’s

[@metroliner9644]

Absolutely not

[@michaellittlejohns7968]

@@metroliner9644oh yes they will and that’s final

[@grahamcracker659]

this is very scare, my cat is sad