Author: van2025ko

There have been a few sightings of 4201 (the suburban demo) as well as 4101 in Southern New Jersey, running out of Washington Township Depot.  It is said that the first of the production models will be assigned to Washington Twp and Newton Avenue, as they have the most Flxible Metro Bs in regular service.  However, time will tell as we wait and see.

Conshohocken has a lot of ideas to build up their downtown area.  This also includes their train station.  Therefore, they are holding a community meeting on December 14th to get community feedback as to what they should do to improve the station, which is "little more than a platform, a trailer that sells tickets, and a bus shelter" (Plymouth Journal).  Of course, no funding is in place yet, but they plan to have a complete proposal to present to SEPTA, as well as something to use to get a grant for this station as well.

5859 has a partial streetside wrap which I have just seen yesterday on 105 / 4300 block.  It is for the Applebee's at 77th and City and says "Follow this bus to Applebee's."  This bus will likely be a regular on the 105 for the duration of the advertising contract.  5593 has a partial streetside wrap for Riddle Memorial Hosptial similar to the one 5408 had back in the fall of 2004.  I don't know if this bus is supposed to be assigned to any particular route as I have seen all over the place thus far.  When 5408 had the ad, it was only supposed to be used on the 110.

For the last few months, the photo gallery wasn’t opened to registration due to the fact it was under construction, however, most of the construction ha been completed. Anyone is welcome to join up and post your photos in there. http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/mutimedia

 

As far as the old MSN gallery is concern, please don’t upload anymore photos on there. Due to the slew of problems with MSN the photo gallery, in terms of reliability and performance issues, we have decided to make this our primary site and gallery.

As some of you guys may or may not noticed, I’ve made a ton of updates around the site. Mainly the Rail pages has been totally reformatted and revised. you could check out these pages here…

http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/mfl.php
http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb…/reg-roster.php
http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb…/interurban.php
the oddball pages has received changes as well, you could check them out from the bar up top...

With special thanks to Joe B for uploading them, Micheal B for taking the photos, and Doug D. 56 older photos of the fleet ranging from 1980-1995 has been uploaded to the site. Most of these photos are that of SEPTA’s 8000 series fleet, with a good portion of GMC RTS slope back photos as well. You could check them out here…

 

http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/mutimedia/thumbnails.php?album=52

Starting tomorrow, November 24, 2006, the R2 Warminster Midday Rail service will return. For the past few months, the R2 has been bussing between Glenside and Warminster due to construction.

Earlier this week, the overhead wiring around 49th and woodland has been down. Due to this buses was dispatched to serve as shuttle buses to try and speed up their delay in service.

http://philadelphiatransitforums.cjb.net/index.php?showtopic=791 

Due to the Holiday season, Amtrak as added some 35 trains along the Northeast Coordidor routing. Due to this, Amtrak has borrowed two of SEPTA’s Push Puller sets, which is set to be returned on Sunday.

Okay, guys, it’s that time we were preparing for! Millennium Transit Services started production of the rest of New Jersey Transit’s RTS Lengends last Monday.  Therefore, we must go out and get our final pictures, recordings, and rides before these buses are gone for good.  For more information, please visit the following webpage for the press release: http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/16038500.htm.