Greetings from Trainwizard! I'm Michael your host. I'm a photographer and videographer based in Philadelphia, filming and taking photos in the SEPTA network around the Philadelphia metropolitan area since 2009! I travel, and on this channel you'll find episodes from bus and rail networks in other cities and intercity, including New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Detroit, with many more to come; even rural places. Formerly known as Buswizard, I have hundreds of hours of footage of buses, trains and trolleys in almost every square mile of Philly in any weather, and I've stepped foot at all SEPTA rail stations, silently capturing the evolution of vehicles, infrastructure, urban development, and the environment trackside. I continue to do so, making the ordinary look extraordinary in the Assorted Railroad Clips series.
Fun fact about SEPTA and Philadelphia. In the late 1970s, they had the choice of building the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway or the Center City Commuter Connection. Foolishly, they chose the Center City Commuter Connection.
Yooo! I genuinely loved the shots in this video! I never thought someone would ever record the equipment moves (3519-3511 pulling out of depot in Trenton)! Trainwizard, I've also seen your Pennsauken Transit Center video that was real old!
The 80s LRV’s along with the 47 PCC’s will always be the biggest part of septa’s golden era fleet. Just like the Neoplan’s, Nabi’s and early 2000 Newflyers. The new era of Buses are TRASH I’m only cool-ish with the Nova’s even tho the Neoplan An460s were still 100% better
I agree on that even the rts and Volvo are better too but for me I think Buses like neoplan,nabi,new flyers diesel and hybrid from 2001/2011 are 100% better + the only new buses I’m cool with is novabus and Md30 the Xde40s there just a little trash But I got nothing against it. The septa trolleys are better too until 2027
The Novas are OK only because I like artics. But they absolutely hold no candle to the Neoplans, my favorite bus make of all time. Now, everything fun is rail, or trackless trolley. I do like the sound the new BAE NFI Xcelsior hybrids make.
@@DARKNIGHT-525 Yeah sadly 2027 is the year the Lrv’s are supposed to be replaced. I always liked the Lrvs a bit more than the pcc’s because they move faster and they’re a lot bigger. But now that the pcc’s are back and overhauled. I wonder how those beauties turned out now that they’re back on the 15
Does this line usually run as 6-car trains? How come three underground stations (40th + 13th + 2nd Streets) appear to have significantly longer platforms than all the others? Also seems odd to me as a non-local why you wouldn't extend this line onto Roosevelt Boulevard rather than the current plan which seems to be a branch off the Broad Street line, given a Market Frankford extension would not need to branch whereas Broad Street Line would, and you wouldn't need to construct as much new track alignment to service the new corridor, and a Market Frankford Extension appears like it would have a faster travel time? Or is it because a Roosevelt Blvd extension of the BSL can run express into downtown?
