Septa RFW from PHL-Doylestown. Gorgeous day. Narration and many graphics provided. 9/15/23

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Septa RFW from PHL-Doylestown. Gorgeous day. Narration and many graphics provided. 9/15/23

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11 ай бұрын

This video actually turned out pretty good because of the bright sun, and the fact that the sun was behind the train. This is the most detailed ride I have done on the Doylestown Line. All interlockings, railroad crossings, and many overhead/undergrade bridges are identified with graphics in addition to narration. This is undoubtedly my favorite Septa Regional Rail line. (at 12:23 that was the former Logan station site-not Tabor)

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@memberberries1925 11 ай бұрын

SEPTA assistant conductor here!! Really appreciate these detailed videos cause they help with learning interlocks ect for when we go into our promotion class

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Glad to be of service. I would have preferred a cleaner window, but considering the detail you’re getting with this, I think that can be overlooked.

@hexagram56 11 ай бұрын

Used to ride this line (R5) just about every day 1992-1994, again 1998-1999. Back then it was paper ticket, conductor came through to punch it with odd shapes, walk from car to car calling out the stops. All the names still ring true but the landscape is almost unrecognizable. Thanks for the ride!

@diannegoopta4091 10 ай бұрын

Hi gm how are you I love!!! Your viedo I live in Trinidad was living New York And used to ride metro north

@alex84896 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome video sir

@scottyerkes1867 11 ай бұрын

Many fond memories of riding this line. Thanks Tim for a nice ride👌💚

@thewmreed 11 ай бұрын

OMG. I always miss it when you come down here. Next time you come il take you to a great hoagie spot and you can ride the double-end K Cars to get there. Even though im a Philly native i lived right off the LIRR mainline in Carle Place. So glad they got that 3rd track in.

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Whenever I come down there I never know what I’m going to do or where I’m going to go. The powers that be dictate my activities.

@fredredmon5828 11 ай бұрын

Hello Tim from Orlando been watching Brightline run testing they really have been running a lot of trains the last couple of days service from Orlando to Miami starts the 22nd. Fly eagles fly. Nice to see you back in Philadelphia watching this video Saturday night on my TV

@johnburke1317 11 ай бұрын

Nice video 👋

@billclements3879 9 ай бұрын

Cool ride😊

@sepa2401 10 ай бұрын

Excellent capture! This engineer certainly uses the K3LA horn to it's full potential! I hear these Silverliners come through Ambler all the time, and it's pretty easy to tell who's operating by how they blow the horn.

@hornshowrailfan2554 10 ай бұрын

Amtrak does a much better job. Ride Amtrak a couple times a week. You can notice the difference.

@sepa2401 10 ай бұрын

@@hornshowrailfan2554 Yeah, a lot of the engineers on SEPTA really don't care about doing a perfect crossing sequence. There is one engineer on SEPTA that I've heard that literally blows through playing with the horn. It's hilarious to watch!

@robertcantore330 11 ай бұрын

Pennsylvania is one of my favorite states to visit especially in the Fall

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 ай бұрын

In RDG days, North Wales had two more crossings! There were crossings at 4th St. as well as Dickerson Rd. (I used to live on 4th St.)

@zazaranger5 11 ай бұрын

Ah yes, another SL V with a dirty window. They REALLY need to power wash those trains😮

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Gotta take what I can get. I try to use the sun to my advantage

@zazaranger5 11 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr Exactly Tim👍

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

@@zazaranger5There will be more the rest of the year

@hornshowrailfan2554 11 ай бұрын

Keep them coming!!!

@dutchvanderlinde154 11 ай бұрын

Great video

@sethtriggs 10 ай бұрын

Really nice run! And always enjoy your narration too.

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Without narration or graphics, they are mindless. Can’t tolerate that.

@georgejenista9487 11 ай бұрын

Pulling into North Broad, I noticed what appears to be a track, off the mainline to the right, with a piece of M-o-W equipment sitting on it. Behind it I briefly glimpsed what looked to be a brick (former? ) carbarn?

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Not sure

@zazaranger5 11 ай бұрын

Man the weeds on the tracks are almost as bad as the MTA A train out to the Rockaways

@trevornorman1260 11 ай бұрын

Flashing yellow over red means medium approach and thanks for the videos I learned a lot from you every chance I get the watch please keep doing what you do

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Per an employee that signal has a special instruction which says that it is an approach.

@Dirk-jx7yq 10 ай бұрын

Lansdale crossing shanty there's still the concrete blocks with the steel I beams there at main street

@JH-yw8vb 11 ай бұрын

You should do a video on the Norristown High Speed Line. If you do it soon they are single tracking and that would be neat to show

@boxerstudful 11 ай бұрын

The Pushpulls at glenside are the express to wayne and loc to Thorndale

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Saw it later at Suburban

@robg9236 11 ай бұрын

If anyone ever needs to do voice overs in Jerry Orbach's voice, you have a job.

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

People have said that

@zazaranger5 11 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr Wow, now come to think of it, I do hear Jerry Orbach

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 ай бұрын

Unlike most New Yorkers, Tim's accent is very relaxing and soothing.

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

@@OldsVistaCruiser but Jerry Orbach had a New York accent. He was about as New York as you can get.

@isleman9473 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting Tim, but those trains go about as fast as molasses going up a hill in January!

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Well, when I ride on these, I’m not in any hurry. Your response if I had a dollar for every one similar, I could fly first class to Australia.

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 ай бұрын

At 39:20, what you have labeled as Gwynedd Pk. is actually Plymouth Rd. I loved using that road as part of a shortcut between North Wales and Plymouth Meeting.

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Ha. That was info I was given about that crossing.

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 ай бұрын

At 30:47 is the site of the old Camp Hill station. Just beyond that, a terrible head-on wreck happened in 1856.

@jackchen7003 11 ай бұрын

Denver’s RTD use the same Silverliners

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

Interiors are not the same. No railfan window.

@3985uprr 11 ай бұрын

The resolution will improve give it some time

@NE-Explorer 9 ай бұрын

What does the flashing green mean? Does it mean follow cab signals?

@3985uprr 9 ай бұрын

Yes.

@NE-Explorer 9 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr Thank you for the information.

@OldsVistaCruiser 11 ай бұрын

Gwynedd Cut was originally a tunnel. It was daylighted when the RDG electrified. There's another tunnel beyond Lansdale on the Bethlehem Branch not far past Perkasie station, which still stands.