Engines of SEPTA: J.G Brill Bullets 

"OH, FOR GOD'S SAKE! NOT ANOTHER ONE!"

To fill out the 1989-93 history a bit: When the Bullets and Strafford cars started to fail SEPTA had to shut the line down for a while. They tried special shuttle buses which of course were much slower and less reliable. There was serious talk of turning the line into BRT, but that idea was scrapped due to legal issues regarding the ROW and funding that was specific to maintaining rail service. As a stopgap SEPTA acquired six pairs of castoff CTA 6000-series cars which only needed minor modifications to run on the P&W tracks. They also took 5 (?) single M3 cars from the Market-Frankford El, regauged them using trucks from scrapped PATH cars. The CTAs were used for Norristown service, while the M3s were generally restricted to 69th St - Bryn Mawr locals. That continued until the mid-90s when the N-5 fleet was large enough to take over full service. SEPTA's not normally known for innovation but they deserve props for cobbling together a fix that worked for over half a decade. I admit I was never fond of the CTAs - they were slow, noisy, drafty, and poorly-lit - but they saved the line.

fun fact: the Wabco AA2's were used on The NJT Arrows and the indonesian locomotives cc 201 cc 203 and cc 204 which were ge u18c and u20c's were rebuilt and re classified

1:15 I get the reference

Further evidence that it was the US, not Japan nor France, that pioneered high speed rail technology which other industrialized countries have since used to start their own rail lines. Thank you for presenting an informative and entertaining narrarive.

1:15 thats what she said 9 months later

1:31 we have 2 phillidelphia & western streetcars here in operation with septa equipment in them at the museum i volenteer in

My very first memories are of watching the Bullets (and the CTA 6000 cars) from my bedroom window and from the Lowry's Lane Bridge as they headed in and out of Garrett Hill Station. Thanks for letting me relive a very small but very much missed part of my childhood.

Thanks for adding I remember riding these when I was a kid they could fly.

A few clarifications. The P&W Bullets were numbered 200-209. The 11th Bullet was the second 203, built in 1933 to replace the original 203 which was consumed by a fire. The FJ&G cars were numbered 125-129. The P&W cars weighed 26 tons. No. 204 was quietly scrapped by the National Museum of Transportation in June of 2018, and No. 206 is preserved by the ELECTRIC CITY Trolley Museum. Loved this video, VERY well done.

Great video. So cool you included the FJ&G Baby Bullets. My great grandfather worked for FJ&G.

This will always be my favorite episode.

8:42 If only they were steam powered, then I could call them Grandpuff. Hahaha

The JG bullets lasted longer than the R32 subway cars in NYC which those cars lasted 56 years from 1964-2020

LOL I DIED WHEN SEPTA GOT MAD AT ABB FOR BEING LATE

Over 60 yrs of service wow!

No It was classified as a Class 1 as it was intended to connect to other railroads further west to create a transcontinental line that never came to be.

They didn't lend SEPTA 2308 It was given as a reward for the late delivery.

11:49 I’ve been there! Never saw 208 though. But it was still fun.

The Budd R32 for the MTA New York City Subway system ran from 1964 - present day, not quite there with the bullets, but getting close.

2:06 *_SHTËÀMŁÎÑĒD_*

I think that, if in the 30s there were high speed rail lines like the ones of today, probably the trains would have been very similar to those railcars.

Hey thunderbolt I like your videos even your train crash videos I still like him because you’re entertaining fun enjoyable and you make the same videos as Amtrak guy 365 but that doesn’t stop me from watching your videos keep up the good work from Andrew Gentry Mace to thunderbolt keep up the hard work

1:14 Thunderbolt 1000 siren productions 2018

LVT ended 69th St to Norristown service in 1949 and continued Allentown to Norristown until LVT was dissolved in 1951.

I would love to ride those cars

Awesome video!

206 is not at Rockhill Its at Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton

More specific and detailed info, from "P&W Bullet cars, the World's First Bullet Trains" Facebook page: facebook.com/422891974476332/posts/767234333375426/

The first day septa tool over the P & w a inspector for septa ask me way i was running late i knew from that day on the history of the red arrow was over. :(

This year I'm gonna see a septa bullet

10:18 got me laughing

Wabco aa2s are a personal favorite

Poor train... It didn't deserve to be scrapped

One of the fastest trains

I’ve seen 205 on September 24th at east broad top for a test run since it hasn’t ran since 2018 it was a good moment video on my channel

I’ve seen that bullet in ST. LOUIS because I live Missouri

Could you possibly do the Septa street cars?

These are very cool looking. the NHSL is such a strange line. I'm genuinely curious what the future holds for it since speeds have been cut back, and I've heard that the current cars on the route acquired in the 90's (I think?) are starting to experience mechanical failures that regularly cause delays on the line. I'd love to one day see the line re-tooled as an extension of the L with frequent through-running service from Norristown all the way to Frankford TC. I'm kind of afraid that once the cars go, SEPTA will put the line out of service and it will sit abandoned.

The horn uses the aa2 air horn is also being used in Indonesia

Um no, There were only 10 cars, 200-209 (displayed as 0-9 on the roof above each air scoop on each end).

12:01 So depressing to see.

Sounds like a remix of Quantic's "Time is the Enemy"

Do the market frankford line trains history

Any idear when next one is or is it still on hold ?

Good

7 have been preserved.

didn't even remember this because of the n5s

No, noo, Nooo, gettin close, stil- *what Noah WhiteHouse said*

2:18 Anoher design that the soviets ripped off. The cab on this looks very similar to the ER1 and ER2 Electric Multiple Units.

I’ve seen the one at the NMT

Nice

can you re upload this with better and louder audio

Wabcos are on the nyc subway work trains

11:02 NOTE: septa bullet trolley 207 almost collided with bullet trolley 202 in 1/26/1987

No-O FOR GOD SAKES NOT ANOTHER ONE

I was waiting for a joke about a bucket of ice at 4:33 but I guess the one picture gag per episode was wasted at the beginning with the "bullet" thing

and the old broad street line cars there are still some at fern rock

But 201 didnt get preserved makes sence :p

Do Kawasaki B-IV on the Broad Street Subway or Adtranz M-4 on the El

OH FOR GODS SAKE NOT ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait, so the NHSL ran subway style cars?

The Flying Hamburger now I'm hungry for one rigth now

You need to go to the Pennsylvania trolley museum

Engines of SEPTA, SEPTA AEM-7s

Hey they have 209 at the pennsylvania trolley museum

Video on the mp54s?

Hey thunderbolt, um, I've been to the Utah state railroad museum, and the bullet is not there at all, just adding some clarification.

60 years of service? Pche, that is nothing at Slovakia are beeing dispatched 88 years old locos to normal service, but they are also getting out slowly out of service.

I saw a jb bullet car on lots and lots of trains 2

11:22 That's Electric City Trolley Museum, not Rockhill

how about the budd cars for the mkl

looks like a x7 railcar / rälsbuss inswedish (railbuss)

It's not Slow speed. The correct term is Low speed.

i get the opening refrence

They look like mat 40 trains from the netherlands

1:10 is that supposed to refer to Thomas1Edward2Henry3 NWR origins with Donald and Douglas? I literally watched it

pls make the mp54

1:10-1:20 "morristown bullets" *pic of shinkansen* "nooooo" *pic of rounds from a gun* "nooooo" *pic of silver bullet movie* "still no" *pic of Amtrak Acela* "getting close" *pic of news saying that another shooting happened* "FOR GOD SAKES NOT ANOTHER ONE" *pic of morristown bullets* "there you go thank you" me: lol

Im a member there

Music at the begining pls?

I think we have one of those cars but its in new jersey transit paint... so is it one of them or is it not?

Flying hamburger lol

It's Odakyu not Udakyu

Can you focus one topic one ☝️. Because u do train crashes the funny moments

Thomas1edward2henry3 Reference

intro song?

4:45 😋

Lol the roblox anger

What does ABB stand for?

Not hamburger flyer its hamburg flyer.

4:16 Not trying to be a grammar nazi here, but its pronounced o-da-kyu

Doo a blooper vid

The cars that replaced them were ugly.

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