ARCHIVES - 2/12/02

The bus pictures on most of the new City Transit timetables are of 5009 at Wissahickon Loop (on layover from a 38 run), except for the 1, 2, 7, 14, 47, 54, 57, 61, 64, 68, C, G, H/XH, L, and R, which feature 5374 turning off of Market St onto 15 St as a northbound 17; the 17, 21, 37, 42, 43, 44, and 52, which sport 5427 (at Penn's Landing on the 21/42 line), and the 30, 63, 77, and 89, showing 4566 pulling into Wissahickon (as a 35, probably). The trackless timetables feature Frankford ETB 897, the subway-surface lines sport 9078, and the artic lines show 7241 at Fox Chase Loop on the 18. Why SEPTA royally mixed up the new timetables is a mystery to me...

At Red Arrow, the P&W timetable sports Norristown-bound 145 passing West Overbrook Station at Township Line Rd, Media/Sharon Hill timetables are green instead of brown (oops) and show 108 at the Orange St terminal in Media, the main lines out of 69 St Terminal (104, 108, 109, 110, and 113) show 5428; the ElDorado lines (103, 107, 111, 114, 115, 116, 118, and 305) have what looks like another view of 4550 (laying over on the 118 to Newtown Square; the September timetables showed the same bus from a different angle), and the timetables which don't sport a New Flyer (105, 112, 117/119, 120 and 123) show 5324 at Chester at a Boothwyn-bound 114. Conspicously absent from the new timetables is the "SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGE" slogan used for the past four years...

Starting with this past Monday's runs, buses out of Red Arrow have begun sporting a new block numbering sequence. Instead of starting with 1, 2, 3 (or in some cases, 51, 52, 53...), there's a confusing block numbering system similar to those used at the City depots...

Over the weekend, Allegheny 7147 - which had been damaged in an accident on the Frankford El Shuttle a few weekends ago - was back in service, spotted on Saturday operating the Market St El Shuttle (901 block)...

ElDorados are starting to show up on some West Philadelphia routes. An ElDorado was spotted at the 63 St/Malvern Av trolley loop, possibly on a training run, since ridership on the 46 far exceeds the capacity of an ElDorado.