SEPTA performed quite a bit of major work on its Doylestown branch in 1985, and employed an Amtrak work train for some of the job. Here two “pumpkins” run around their train just short of the ... (more)

After working Lansdale, an afternoon local heads north to Doylestown.

A pair of SEPTA Silverliner V commuter sets await assignment late one Saturday night at Doylestown, PA. Doylestown is the terminus of the line that runs to Philadelphia via Lansdale. The former ... (more)

Fancy meeting you here! New Hope & Ivyland's 2-8-0 No. 40 meets a southbound Silverliner V as it prepares to depart the commuter agency's North Wales station bound for Lansdale, PA ... (more)

A Norristown High Speed Line train accelerates away from the Ardmore Avenue station on its way to 69th Street in Upper Darby.

Two Norristown High Speed Line trains have just passed each other at the power station located just west of the Beechwood-Brookline station.

I am not a big fan of Silverliner IVs, but the scene caught my eye. A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

SEPTA’s AEM7 test train has been reconfigured to point south, and is now leaving Lansdale to return to Philadelphia.

With its train of five blueliners in the Lansdale holding yard, the Amtrak AEM7 being tested by SEPTA has coupled to the opposite end of the MU cars, and is preparing to return to Philadelphia.

Blueliners and Silverliners

Two generations of the former Reading electrification stand in the holding yard at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. To the left is a five-car Lineup of Blueliner... (more)

In anticipation of delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test the new locomotives’ burden on its electrical distribution supplying the former Reading electrification. A Sunday, the slowest... (more)

SEPTA ACS-64 903 leads train 9561 "The Great Valley Flyer" on its first revenue run.

Portrait shot of SEPTA's AEM-7 No. 2306 at Strafford Station.

A Bombardier built Comet II car leads a SEPTA push-pull set out of the station near the once bustling Pennsylvania Railroad yard in Thorndale, PA.

The early morning rush begins at SEPTA's Thorndale station just east Amtrak's former PRR yard in Thorndale, PA, the terminus for SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale line. Here we see a set of Silveriner V EM... (more)