On Wednesday January 2, 2019, my brother and I made an adventure of exploring the SEPTA system.
We bought Independence Passes, which offer essentially unlimited travel on the SEPTA transportation system for a day, and we sampled a variety of modes and lines.
We began at Parkside Avenue by boarding the number 40 bus (GASP!), then to the Market-Frankford rapid transit. At Jefferson Station/Market East we picked up a heavy rail train to Norristown where we transferred to the old Philadelphia & Western high-speed line to 69thStreet.
From there the Media trolley to its namesake (yes, there’s a town called Media, Pennsylvania, and it’s one of the last with a single track trolley right up the main street.) Reaching the end of the trolley line at Orange Street, we walked to the old PRR station, and boarded a train that ran through to West Trenton, New Jersey, although we alighted at Woodbourne, PA to meet our friend Pat Yough, who took us by road to a nearby pub.
Our return trip retraced our steps to Philadelphia’s suburban station, where after some trials and missteps, eventually found the appropriate bus (GASP!) and this brought us back to where we began.
The light was dreary, but I made photos anyway using with both my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm digital cameras.
Tracking the Light Posts Everyday.
Great selection of pictures. To my mind, the most interesting transit city in the US. On Christmas Day 1978, I left New York Penn Sta at 7.33 on the Montrealer, Philly 30th St arr 9:09. I was in Media 10:25 – 10:28, Car 23 out and back, and then did Norristown (11:57 – 12:06) on Brill Bullet 202, also out and back. At 14:45, I was on my way to Washington, arr 17:13, to continue to New Orleans on the Crescent, which, after lots of shunting to attach the NY portion and replace a defective sleeping car, finally left at 20:53. ( had been on board since about 19:00!)
Michael Walsh (alias Anonymous)