{"id":9855,"date":"2015-02-08T01:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T06:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:00:02","slug":"septas-philadelphia-streetcars-in-eight-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/septas-philadelphia-streetcars-in-eight-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA\u2019s Philadelphia Streetcars in Eight Photos."},"content":{"rendered":"

Historically, Philadelphia had one of the most extensive urban streetcar networks in the United States.<\/p>\n

My recent book Streetcars of America<\/em><\/a>\u00a0co-authored with John Gruber and published by Shire<\/a>, features a selection of historic images of Philadelphia\u2019s cars.<\/p>\n

My father began photographing in Philadelphia in the mid-1950s, and my family has kept up the tradition.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A SEPTA Kowasaki car works Lancaster Avenue with the Philadelphia Center City skyline in the distance. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
An historic PCC in route 15 service turns the corner from 63rd Street to Girard Avenue. Canon EOS 7D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SEPTA's<\/a>
SEPTA’s number 15 on Girard Avenue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A few minutes later this training car came grinding along.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A view looking east on Girard Avenue. Canon EOS 7D with 200mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On January 16, 2015 I re-explored several Philadelphia streetcar routes to make photographs. I was surprise to see one of the 1980s-era Kawaski cars working as a \u2018Training Car\u2019 on Girard Avenue\u2014normally the domain of restored PCCs for the number 15 cross-town line.<\/p>\n

Later my brother Sean and I went over to Media to catch the route 101 car. The Media line is one of the vestiges of the old Philadelphia Suburban Lines.<\/p>\n

\"Media,<\/a>
Media, Pennsylvania is proud of its streetcar!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SEPTA's<\/a>
SEPTA’s Route 101 Trolley en route from\u00a069th Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"SEPTA<\/a>
SEPTA 101 on the streets of Media, PA. Canon EOS 7D with 40mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Historically, Philadelphia had one of the most extensive urban streetcar networks in the United States. My recent book Streetcars of America\u00a0co-authored with John Gruber and published by Shire, features a selection of historic images of Philadelphia\u2019s cars. My father began photographing in Philadelphia in the mid-1950s, and my family has kept up the tradition. On … Continue reading SEPTA\u2019s Philadelphia Streetcars in Eight Photos.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[3786,7535,183,49,1033],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SEPTA_15_takes_the_corner_63st_IMG_9922-1.jpg?fit=750%2C500","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-2yX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9857,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions\/9857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}