SEPTA Flashback Series: 69th Street Terminal

[@djinteractive2013]

Those engines were beasts God I miss the sound of those!!!

[@dez-ef5bo]

Very good footage. I remember riding these buses in the 1980s and 90s. it's hard to believe all these buses are gone now !

[@calvincrews3885]

I was a young kid in the 90s those were the best time of my life when buses were Detroit Diesel powered buses

[@daniel022209]

Can you imagine being a SEPTA fan and a college student during break at this time? I would go joyriding all day!

[@JessicaKasumi1990]

Wow, Joe, this is incredible footage. Now, I want a time machine.

[@trainman1971]

:)

[@Biscuit1973]

I was then a teenager when I first set foot here to this place I witnessed all of the buses & trains come in & outta this terminal because I was then looking for an old classmate who’d moved to Upper Darby back in the Summer of 1987 in which I’d found her living in one of the apartment buildings a few blocks away and seeing her was then a happy event but her mother wasn’t since she was asking questions about how did I know where to go and all that & later kept her indoors since that encounter with her which was the last time I’ve seen her .

[@jamallhayden2512]

Thank You!

[@ReginaldBostic360]

The GMC rts buses and the Budd cars were the coolest

[@christophercrafter2609]

Joe thank you. My God look at that 8567 😃😊. I'm so glad that we still have the Kawasaki cars.

[@christophercrafter2609]

Around the 6:50 mark I think one of those Neoplans was the 8566, my stalker out of that group. 8566 was like that girl back in school who always had feelings for me. I miss that 8566. I think 8567 was headed back to the garage whereas 85## (8566??) looked like it was finishing up as an outbound 107 to Macdade Mall with no return to 69th Street. 107 and 111 finished early as shit during those days.

[@wook1990]

Thank you for the nostalgia! Watching these videos from the past brings back memories and being a 90s baby it makes me feel like the 90s are still here!

[@jamesbarno9541]

Great Video Bring Back Memories

[@enolamsamoht]

I've never seen a neoplan with a tailpipe at the bottom.

[@trainman1971]

All of SEPTA's except the artics were like that, yep.

[@baul104]

I was 10 years old when this was recorded but I lived in Detroit.

[@yolandajohnson8685]

buses that I catch often from out of 69th street depot (SEPTA'S VICTORY DEPOT): 107, 109, 110, 111 and sometimes the 123.

[@daniel022209]

Those Neoplans at drove off at the 6:00 minute had the aftercoolers on in their engines hence the different tone in the motors.

[@christophercrafter2609]

8579, he was a great guy (that was a great bus).

[@hiltonlive32grnrngr]

As much as I miss the Silverliner III trains, and the Kawasaki trolleys having the rollsigns with the red & blue stripe scheme (at 4:00 for example), I also miss those Neoplan buses. I swear Septa was so much fun to ride back in the 1990s, but i was a little girl back then. Septa sucks now

[@trainman1971]

That was a fun time!

[@zazaranger5]

The farebox you see inside 8719, are still in use today in 2023(27 years later), all they did now was hook up the Septa Key reader to them

[@djinteractive2013]

Did they have Allison transmissions??

[@trainman1971]

The 1300 and 8000-series Neoplans had Allisons; the 3000-series Neoplans had ZF transmissions.

[@zazaranger5]

​​​​, the ZF ecomat, the 5800, and the 8000 series New Flyers have/had the ZF

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Never understood why those Budd markers stayed on for both ends

[@daciatravel.647]

👍👍👍🚌🚌

[@calvincrews3885]

Did you film yourself riding Greyhound lines buses before let me know if you did but probably not

[@jasoncrable6025]

Neoplan an440 With the 8000 series I missed them

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Hey Joe When was this filmed?

[@trainman1971]

October/November 1996, one or the other...

[@jasoncrable6025]

Neoplan an440 8579

[@daniel022209]

One of the last BDs in that configuration.

[@jasoncrablephillytransitbo4633]

@@daniel022209 I Wish I Could Go Back In Time!

[@ebonisantiago4702]

Is this from the 2000

[@trainman1971]

@ebonisantiago4702 A wee bit further back. 1996, actually!

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Back when the system had color. Not this bland stuff you see nowadays.