SEPTA Railroad Ride Series 1 - The Cynwyd Line

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This series of 14 videos covers rides on all lines of the SEPTA Regional Rail system.
All rides are viewed out the front window of Silverliner V EMU trains, as seated from the second row of passenger seats (the front row is crew-only when leading).
No narration, no explanation... just the ride through Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.
Volume 1 covers the Cynwyd Line, from Suburban Station to Cynwyd, traveling over part of the SEPTA Main Line and the Amtrak Harrisburg Line before splitting onto the Cynwyd Line itself.

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2 май 2019

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@chrishowell4845 2 года назад

I think service on the Cynwyd Line will be discontinued in a couple of years or so..... doesn`t seem to be enough ridership to keep the line running.

@trainman1971 2 года назад

Not a chance. The trains do fill up pretty well during the times they run. If anything, additional service and a restoration to Manayunk is really needed. The trip I recorded for this video was about 3/4ths full.

@PGHammer21A 4 года назад

This is one of two lines currently on the SEPTA Shelf - even after the Big Repair in the Southwest Division. Since I'm only familiar with the Paoli/Thorndale Regional Rail line (and that only when it was the Paoli Line of 1979/1980), I'm looking at the other SEPTA lines - that I never used.

@OldMovieRob Год назад

What building is that? (around 3:47)

@trainman1971 Год назад

The tall glass one? That's the Cira Center.

@OldMovieRob Год назад

@@trainman1971 Thanks!

@TheDartandFedExBoy 5 лет назад

Will you do all 5's? I love the voice!

@trainman1971 5 лет назад

All Silverliner V's since those are the only cars I could do these videos aboard :)

@TheDartandFedExBoy 5 лет назад

@@trainman1971 love those cars! Mommy takes them to the cira center from Newark.

@MoskitoGirl 2 месяца назад

Baby Branch

@Robbi496 3 года назад

This was once the Pennsy Line to Manayunk and Norristown, no?

@trainman1971 3 года назад

All that now remains of it, yes.

@kevinhoward9593 3 года назад

Actually its the ex-PRR line to Pottstown. PRR/PC slowly cut service back until it was nothing but a philly-manyuak line.

@PGHammer21A 3 года назад

At the far northern end, the Cynwyd line shows it's PRR - if not ex-Penn Central - heritage, despite nowhere does it overlay either the NEC or the Paoli/Thorndale Line (both of which are known ex-Pennsy properties). Who owned it pre-SEPTA? (I am not talking the caternaries, either - I am talking about the high tension wiring that eventually feeds the transformers that in turn feed the caternaries. The "periods" of ownership are given away by the wiring - and it is as true of railroads as it is with power transmission companies; in fact, the Paoli/Thorndale line is as classic an example as the Cynwyd line is. Look at the western end of Paoli/Thorndale - from Thorndale to Malvern - "classic" PRR. (In fact, compare it to the 1970s and earlier PRR and PC NEC videos - obvious, obvious, obvious!). Then you have Paoli to Overbrook - which looks nothing like Thorndale to Malvern - why? Lastly, you have the "home stretch" - Overbrook to 30th Street Station - typical PRR station fashion. (DC Union Station, NYC Penn Station, even Newark, NJ Penn Station or Baltimore Penn Station.)

@trainman1971 3 года назад

It's all ex-Pennsy.... Cynwyd Line track, catenary, and the high tension lines, as part of the former PRR Schuylkill Valley line, electrified as far as Norristown. As for the high tension wires, they are ex-PRR feeder lines and followed the right of way to feed into the Trenton Cut-Off where the two routes crossed each other between Conshohocken and Norristown. Those feeders currently handle current for Amtrak's Harrisburg Line (SEPTA Paoli-Thorndale Line). Amtrak has wanted to rebuild the catenary structures along the Harrisburg Line between 52nd Street and Glen (where the high tension feeders rejoin the line off the Cut-Off) to reroute those high tension lines directly along their own ROW and then decommission the current wires via the Cynwyd Line/ex-PRR alignment/Cut-Off route, but most of the Main Line municipalities balked at the plans, so that is still up in the air.

@ElijahJohnson1997 5 лет назад

can you do LIRR AND Metro north train lines please

@trainman1971 5 лет назад

Fraid not. Impossible to do head-end views on those trains. I got the Metro-North New Haven and Harlem Lines in 2000 and 2004, respectively, long ago before the M-8's came online, though. Can't upload Harlem for reasons I can not get into, but New Haven will come later.

@ElijahJohnson1997 5 лет назад

@@trainman1971 ok

@ElijahJohnson1997 5 лет назад

@@trainman1971 But you can do all SEPTA Commuter Rail lines Philadelphia

@trainman1971 5 лет назад

@@ElijahJohnson1997 All finished already. I'm staggering the releases over the next couple months. What line is coming next, only I know... hehe

@ElijahJohnson1997 5 лет назад

@@trainman1971 for which lines

@kevinhoward9593 5 лет назад

what exactly is the point of this line? I mean its one car every other hour that carries maybe 10 people a trip. You would think SEPTA would recycle the tracks on the viaduct by now.

@trainman1971 5 лет назад

Service is actually roughly every 45 minutes during the AM and PM rush periods, plus a midday round trip. And they do get a decent rush-hour ridership turnout. The trip I rode doing the video left 30th Street with about 20 people on board; the corresponding return trip had between 30 and 40 leaving Wynnefield. The 52nd Street viaduct, you mean? That's Amtrak's territory, actually, and they do use it once in a while for headroom to keep wying locomotives or trains out of traffic as needed via the Pittsburgh-New York Subway.

@PhillyBagel 3 года назад

Wying trains is all the ramp track is good for now. The flyover itself is now a glorified catenary structure which will sit and rust for a few decades until it becomes necessary to pay for its expensive removal.

@Robbi496 3 года назад

@@PhillyBagel Ummm, doesn't the NS use it for freight anymore? (I know they use diesels)