On November 10, 2017, my brother Sean and I traveled on SEPTA to Norristown, Pennsylvania.
At Elm Street Station, I made these photos of SEPTA Silverliner 4 electric multiple units in the blue light of dusk using my Lumix LX7.
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Five years ago today (July 10, 2017), I traveled on SEPTA to the old Reading Company station at Chestnut Hill (now Chestnut Hill East) where I made this selection of photos using my Lumix LX7.
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June 2, 2014—Eight years ago, I made this photo of a number 34 Trolley working on Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia .It was a sunny warm day.
I was working my trusty Canon 7D with 40mm pancake lens.
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In December 2014 on a blitz of SEPTA’s rail transit in Philadelphia with my brother Sean, I made this view of the Broad Street Subway at the Girard Avenue stop.
My feeling is that SEPTA’s Broad Street Subway is among the least photographed rail transit lines in the Northeastern United States.
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Brian Solomon is traveling ‘off the grid’ and this post was prepared several days ago.
In August 1980, on the return from Los Angeles, my family and I visited Philadelphia for a few days.
This was the view from our hotel room.
Working with my vintage Leica 3A rangefinder, I exposed this photo of an inbound SEPTA PCC car working the No. 10 route as it approached the Trolley subway portal off 36th street.
I was working with Kodachrome 64 slide film. The window glass and summer haze contributed to a cyan tint.
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In October 2001, my brother Sean and I visited Norristown, Pennsylvania to photograph SEPTA’s Route 100, known as the Norristown High Speed Line. Here it crossed the Schuylkill Valley on a long steel viaduct.
It was a bright clear day, and I made these views on Fujichrome using my Contax G2 rangefinder from a vantage point the north bank of the river. On the walk back from the river, I stepped squarely in some deep mud.
Until the early 1990s, SEPTA operated distinctive Brill ‘Bullet Cars’ on this route. My dad still calls SEPTA’s current fleet as ‘the new cars’, even though at this point most are now the better part of 30 years old!
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