SL5 RFW ride from PHL to Doylestown with Conductor Bill. 1/18/23 

It was a pleasure chatting with you! Next stop Doylestown!

Pleasant ride!! I rode this line to/from Oreland when my parents lived there. Conductor Bill is really good at his job. Thanks Tim😀💚

One of your best videos. Thx so much.

Work with him myself he’s a great guy to work with he’s also a volunteer firefighter as well as myself to

One thing I love about SEPTA. They are all electric (Also by extension Denver RDT which is modeled after then and uses silver liners as well)

This is a real nice video you sir are a fountain of knowledge that I enjoy listening to. And the conductor was a pleasure as well.

Awesome! He is an awesome helpful conductor I caught him at temple earlier this month

Great Video! Every time i watch your train trips, I want to take a train ride! I have rode this line twice to Doylestown I must liklely to visit the art museum or the Mercer Museum witch is worth a visit. On my return trip back to Philadelphia, i departed in North Wales to stop at a local craft Brewery,. after that got next train Home.

19:20 west Trenton used to go to Newark. It would get you there around 9a and you’d arrive at wall st via path around 920. Very popular to go from Jtwn to nyc this way back in the day

Great video! Especially for us transit fans out west.

Nice Tim. And your ride is free there, yet. The head end shots sure beat side window shots, especially with Sun glare or a dirty window. And with side window shots you can't see and call out the signals for your viewers. But I still think it's nuts that SEPTA blocks off the front seats. If you told them that in places like Chicago, they'd laugh. The single track rural area on the outer end of the Doylestown line is a lot like what West Chester was like years ago. I loved the Doylestown line years ago with the old Reading Company MU cars. They were great in the summertime with the open windows and the whining gear and traction motor sounds. I loved that like you love horns.

I know that I am not in the minority but with the resurgence of both Allentown and Bethlehem, bring back a one seat ride to Philadelphia via the train would be a Godsend.

Another great one Tim!

Great video! I saw an eagle eating a fish it had caught on the railroad track near Westport around Thanksgiving, the birds really love playing it dangerous near the railroad.

2:15 my fave is Warminster. I live close to this line though. Nice they changed some of the announcements to have passes ready

Ah hahaha!! I was waiting for you to get my brother from another mother!! It’s funny how he recognized your voice. Bill I believe you owe beers now! Lol

I use to ride the R 5 Fernrock to Lansdale when I worked at a Scout Camp in Greene Lane Pa. Man, that sometime was a Chore. sometime I would catch the R7 from Homlesbug to 30th Street and transfer.

The door chime sounds like that one noise in McDonalds with the long beeps

“I know that voice!” 😂

Really enjoyed this video. I’m a DelVal alum and Doylestown resident and watched this video in its entirety. FYI if you have the Septa app in the bottom right click More then Train View it will show you the cars numbers on the trains currently running. The 700 and 800 series are the Silverliner Vs.

I appreciate your preference 2 the Silverliner 5 trains, I do so myself. However the Silverliner4 deserve some praise 4 their longevity and durability. I also share your liking of the MTA LIRR M9.

Great , great assistant conductor ! Where was he when I worked this line ? I seemed to always work with the goofballs

Just in case you haven't already seen, East Side Access is opening this Wednesday 1/25 with the first train leaving Jamaica for Grand Central departing at 10:45am, and the first return trip departing at 11:34am

Bills only been here a year don't take his word on anything

I thought you'd mention the phase break that occurs right before the first signal after you exit the tunnel. SEPTA trains operate at 12.5Khz on the Reading side and 12Khz on the Amtrak(PRR) side.

Have you ever thought of going to Denver, as their system (not the light rail) is all their MU's are a sister fleet ordered at about the same time as SEPTA's. I can't tell from the videos if they forced their crews into the same kind of little subway style cabs as SEPTA did;(which gives you that RFW). In Denver they don't seem to have any provision for low platforms.

I'm sure you'll be on the LIRR on Wednesday to Grand Central Madison... Looking forward on your video!👍

there's no way to make manual announcements on the PA on a Silverliner.?

That guy is an ASSISTANT Conductor. Not a Conductor.

One question please Can take Doylestown line from 30 street station

8:37 what is the point of doing that if the right track just merges with the line later on anyway?

Great video! I ride the Paoli Thorndale and Manayunk Norristown everyday. Do you like Norristown?

How fast are the septa lines outside of the Northeast corridor/Keystone corridor

18:36 my old stop

18:28 just east of suburban station

Enjoyed your show. Bill is a nice guy. One question SEPTA trains seem to run very slow when compared to the subway in NYC. This trains are electric so why so slow? is there a reason for that?

8:58 dangerous especially north of your location until you reach the city limits

You say you jump at the chance to ride tge SILVERLINER. what does that mean??

Intro ends 0:28

What is *RFW* ?