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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.

5640 a Cummins retrofit is back in service after months of being retrofitted with a Cummins Engine. It has been reported by a forum member to be seen on route 23. It’s likely that the bus may have been retrofitted due to the problems with its engine which forced septa to retrofit it. So be on the look out for 5640!!

The Main Street-Community Development Corporation (CDC), has written up an proposal to allow usage of existing abandon tracks from  Phoenixville to Malvern, and the Great Valley Corporate Center. You could read more on this article… http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17458306&BRD=1673&PAG=461&dept_id=17915&rfi=6

Ctrabs, a reputable forum poster has stated that Krapf’s has added another Gillig to its roster bus number is “9412”. It has been reported that its an  EX-Denver RTD Gillig. It features soft seats unlike the other Gillig in service, has a Detroit Diesel series 50, the transmission has been reported to be unknown, however, some research did indicate that this unit may have a ZF 5HP-590 transmission, whether or not it has a ZF transmission has yet to be verified.