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Late afternoon today a unknown Elmwood trolley (reportedly 9072) operating on route 13 collided with a truck. The collision occurred at 48th Street and Chester Avenue, up to 20 people that were on board  suffered major injures. More news will fellow as it will becomes available.
  

Callowhill 5414 is now currently in revenue service after going through a major overhaul. 5414 was the prototype bus for the New Flyer overhaul program and was out of service at Berridge shops for over 100 days. The biggest external difference on the bus is the Grill which is like that on the 2004 and 2005 D40LFs. This bus was spotted today on the EL shuttle at 69th street terminal by Ryan Lock.

Southern 5616 were involved in a major accident this evening. Due to the accident 14 people were sent to the hospital. The bus crashed into two SUVs a Car and then a tree while operating on route 12 at 49th and Paschal in Southwest Philadelphia. The bus suffered heavy frontal damage, as more information comes in we will keep you updated.

Photo courtesy of Nbc10.com

24 Kawasaki LRV #s 9077-9100 have been reassigned to the Callowhill Depot for service on route 10 which has transferred for the depot from Elmwood this past Sunday. On a side Car #9098 is currently at Woodland shops for repairs and will not be converted to a work car despite rumors

Trolleys have finally returned to Girard avenue’s route 15 Sunday after 13 years. The rebuilt PCC II cars went into service in the early morning hours of September 4th. Service on the 15 will also be running a few buses with the PCC IIs until all of the operators on the cars are available. Also we are waiting to hear which Kawasaki LRV have been assigned to Callowhill for route 10.

The 8000s are now being placed into service .8001 was spotted on the 17 this evening by Mark De Loatch. So far 8001-8002, and 8004 are confirmed to be at Southern.

Accorded to Darryl bulls the first of the 2005 new flyers #8001 is on the SEPTA property, and currently at Germantown depot.  Also accorded to him that SEPTA will also execute the option of 20 more New flyers set to be numbed from 8100-8119. Making this batch of flyers being 8000-8119. All of these coaches are expected to go to southern depot.

Recently SEPTA released schedule information on there website of the Fall 2005 schedule changes of the suburban transit division.

Accorded to a very official and reliable source. The first of the 8000 series are set to arrive  late next week on the property of SEPTA more than likely the Germantown shops. There has been a number of New Flyers completed at the New Flyer facility with 8000 being the ‘quality control bus’ in other words meaning it would be the last bus to leave there facility. Once these units are on the SEPTA property which could be Germantown they will received radios and other parts which are needed to placed them in service. Typically it could take as long as a week or so to placed these units in to revenue service. Expect these units to be placed into service by early-mid September. Which would be in time of the new fall schedule . As some of you guys may not know all of these units will be placed at the southern depot. Due to the fact it’s the only depot that is equipped to run on Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel (ULSD).

(reversed 8/29/05)-Accorded to Darryl bulls the 05′ flyers will go to Germantown and after that they will proceed to go to the Southern depot. At the Germantown shops SEPTA will placed AMDT systems installation, and the bus number will be stencil in huge numbers on the top.

A newly overhauled Eldorado has been spotted and rode on today by me on the 103. The bus number is 4545, which this bus sport stickers of Berridge overhaul bus in 2005 on the curbside next to the front door. The only thing which I noticed that is different about this bus was the fact that it had a ‘sticker’ in the front that says this bus has an E-Z pass on top. Which is something, which I never see any bus at the Victory shops have before. However, performance wise this bus performed pretty well and the suspension systems appears to ride much more smoother than the bus was before it went though the overhaul. As some of the riders might recall the Eldorado’s are very bouncy units. The newly repaint job was very neatly done the bus was shiny really nice and the wheels were polished pretty nice. As far as the ‘sound’ of the bus I heard reports that they sound different. Well I didn’t notice much different in terms of the sound i think they slightly sound less like a ‘lawnmower’ per say. This marks the total of eight (8) ‘known’ Eldorado’s that has completed the overhaul process.