Peter Witt streetcar 8534 pauses for a photo stop during a Super Saturday Streetcar Special sponsored by the Wilmington Chapter NRHS. The elevated view was provided by an eight-foot snow bank thou... (more)

A Market-Frankford line el train approaches the 56th Street station with the skyline of brotherly love in the background.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A rapid transit train leaves Center City Philadelphia on the Market Street portion of the Market-Frankford Subway-Elevated line.

Operator Russell Greco watches from a SEPTA Kawasaki LRV as another LRV passes on SEPTA's Route 10.

A two-car Kawasaki charter hosted by the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys gets caught up in traffic at the Philadelphia Zoo (the zoo seems to have spilled out on Girard Avenue!) as a regular servi... (more)

A SEPTA PCC-2 rolls past a two-car Kawasaki charter as it enters the Frankford Loop near the Sugar House Casino on Route 15. The charter is for Winterfest 2017, sponsored by the Friends of Philade... (more)

A PCC-2 streetcar pokes out of Callowhill Depot as two Kawasaki LRVs await the next call to duty. The PCC is operating as a charter for Super Saturday Streetcar Special XXIV, sponsored by the Wilm... (more)

A pair of lease units add a splash of color to the loaded CSX Tropicana juice train as it heads out on the "High Line" in Philadelphia.

The Wilmington Chapter NRHS' Super Saturday Streetcar Special XXIV makes a photo stop on SEPTA's Route 13 on Chester Avenue in Philadelphia.

A SEPTA PCC-2 pulls into the entrance to the Callowhill Depot. The streetcar is actually being used as part of a charter -- Super Saturday Streetcar Special XXIV -- sponsored by the Wilmington Cha... (more)

Celebration!

Pennsylvania Railroad’s 30th Street Station in Philadelphia fully opened for business on December 15, 1933. On a Saturday in December, 1983 (I can’t find a record ... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 3

A Harrisburg train has arrived at 30t Street Station in Philadelphia, and the hostlers are taking the GG1 to the Race Street engine terminal. I’m not ... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 2

Soon after a GG1-pulled Harrisburg train arrived at 30th Street Station in Phil... (more)

30th Street Encounter – 1

I frequently visited my railfan cousins in central Maryland during my college years in the late 1970’s. Usually I would borrow my parents’ second ca... (more)