![]() ![]() Of 26 rebuilt trolleys, only 18 were ordered. Managers continued to sabotage the Route 15 project whenever possible. SEPTA management'sĮffort to scuttle the Girard Avenue project ultimately failed, but the anti-trolley Were promoted within SEPTA, and tried to kill the trolley project. Near theīeginning of the Route 15 trolley restoration project, anti-trolley managers That the mothballed fleet of postwar PCCs might be rebuilt instead. After bids for a small fleet of new low-floor LRVsĬame in at around a staggering (at the time) $3 million per car, it was decided In September 1997, faced with the City's threat to withhold its share of fundingįor SEPTA, the transit authority made good on its promise to restore trolleys Route 51 operated sporadically during 19. Three refurbished PCC cars ran on dormant sections of Route 23 and Route 15 tracks. Route 51 was a short-lived effort to operate a tourist-oriented streetcar line from Center City to Philadelphia Zoo. Some were scrapped by SEPTA, others purchased by museums, and someīought by cities that still see some value in the cars, notably, San The fleet of recently overhauled PCCs was dispersed across Instead, four hundred diesel buses were purchased, and Luzerne Depot SEPTA promised to purchase new light rail vehicles for those lines, with a targetĭate of 1997. These last three routes with diesel buses. Only the routes 15, 23, and 56 remained, and in August of that year, the cityĪdministration dropped its opposition to SEPTA's plan to "temporarily" operate By 1986, the Routes 6 and 53 were dropped. Seemed to give up on the North Philadelphia trolley network. PCCs completed starting in 1985 were rebuilt at Woodland Shop.ĭespite this large fleet of renewed PCCs, SEPTA management PCCs completed through 1984 were rebuilt at Courtland Shops. *PCC 2715 was the pilot GOH car, and was not included in the total count. SEPTA General OverHaul PCC rebuilding project One hundred and twelve 1947-48 PCCs for the North Philadelphia streetcar lines. The future of the Southwest Philadelphia Subway-Surfaceīut the North Philadelphia streetcar system saw no such investment in infrastructure,Īside from sporadic track replacements. That time, the new Elmwood Depot was completed and a new trolley maintenance shop replaced Routes that operate through the Subway-Surface tunnel and the streets of Southwest Philadelphia. Kawasaki-built LRVs arrived for service on the five In 1981, a fleet of 112 new SEPTA-designed, (In 1971, the Route 62 shuttle trolley in Darby and Yeadon Boroughs was replacedīy rush hour-only Route 13 trolley service.) Operated from Luzerne Depot in the Hunting Park section of the city. SEPTA bus substitution, this time the Route 60 on Allegheny Avenue. Another ten years would pass before the next Transit authority SEPTA's acquisition of the PTC, trolley Route 47 was abandonedĪnd replaced with diesel buses. Network survived without further vandalism. That utilized the city's new extension to the Subway-Surface tunnel.įor ten years after the 1950s bustitutions, the heavily pruned trolley PCC trolleys served the fourteen surviving routes, including the five lines Tire, Standard Oil and Phillips Petroleum). Motors diesel buses (National City Lines was organized by General Motors, Firestone Trolley routes had been scrapped, replaced by a fleet of as many new General (See the 1953īy 1958, almost one thousand trolleys and thirty-five In earnest until after the National City Lines (General Motors) management tookĬontrol of Philadelphia Transportation Company in 1955. Philadelphia Trolley Routes: By The NumbersĪbandonments and bus conversions of Philadelphia streetcar routes did not begin Philadelphia Trolley Tracks: Phila Trolley Routes ![]()
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