12:40 "Everyone would appreciate it if you would stop holding the door. The train can move even if you're in the door; I don't know what makes you think that it can't. One of these days you're gonna find out the hard way. The train can absolutely move even if you're in the door! The only reason why it doesn't is because we see you in there!" -The operator's rant
csherard8 Wow, you been with SEPTA for a while. Within about a two years, I hope to be a bus operator for MTA Maryland, so I guess we both are closer to our careers than it seem. Best of luck to you.
0:15 NRG 1:46 Oregon 3:12 Snyder 4:31 Tasker - Morris 6:15 Ellsworth - Federal 7:42 Lombard- South 9:02 Walnut - Locust 10:20 City Hall 11:53 Race - Vine / Convention Center 13:05 Spring Garden 14:31 Fairmount 15:42 Girard 17:04 Cecil B. Moore / Temple University 18:41 Susquehanna - Dauphin 19:57 North Philadelphia 21:28 Allegheny 22:54 Erie 24:32 Hunting Park 25:48 Wyoming 27:11 Logan 29:17 Olney Transportation Center 33:18 Fern Rock Transportation Center
The signage on Septa is very inconsistent and lacking in many places. It can be hard to tell what station you are at and the recording announcement on speakers don’t help deaf people and are sometimes not synced to where the trains actually are and announce the wrong station. Some subway entrances especially in north Philly have no signs at all. In center city they have round green signs at subway entrances but only in center city. I heard there used to be public rest rooms in the stations when they were first built. I imagine they were closed or destroyed for various problems but the stench of urine in some stations especially in the stairs going down is a problem too. But don’t get me started.
ATT Station actually has a lower platform. it was designed to help handle a sports game rush. I don't think its been used since the 90s though. The city had planned to build a western extension from Synder but that never happened. that is why there is that weird curve there. ironically the city owns the cars but leases them to SEPTA. the city also owns the MFL from 15th to 69th street I believe.
Fairmount is interesting because it has two platforms - one for the Broad Ridge Spur and the other side platforms for the Broad Street line. Last month when I stopped there, I wondered how people change at Fairmount for the two lines, had a quick glance at the stairs below, but I had a cheesesteak at Jimmy G's steaks at the same station on my mind so I had to leave the station before it closed. What I observed is, the Broad Ridge Spur's platform is lower than the Broad Street line's platform, kind of offset. Honestly I would not recommend making a transfer between the two lines at Fairmount because of the amount of stairs, and it was not explicitly mentioned that it was wheelchair accessible. Maybe in the future, both parts of Fairmount can be retrofitted as such.
I don’t understand how a public transportation system is still not fully wheelchair accessible many years after the Americans with disabilities act was passed. There are many places on the SEPTA system that are still not handicap accessible.
Omg.This brings back SO many memories.I grew up down on Penrose Ave.I remember as a child back in the 70's taking the train with my mother.I would see the lights from the train coming out of the tunnel,hearing the sound and thinking,it looked like a MONSTER...My mom would squeeze my hand to assure me,everything was OK-Thats,a mother's love-😌.We usually got on at,Broad and Oregon.We could walk to the Stadium or the Spectrum down Pattison ave.South Philly.My home forever-----
Pls fix the at&t text thingy its 2010-ish its supposed to be nrg ikik nrg was named in 2020 Edit: Yes this was me 2 years ago. I am stupid for asking to edit in post.
I rode the subway daily from fifth grade pretty much through when I finally moved away, since I attended school as first Spring Garden Station and then Olney. Lived up by Fern Rock. this video makes me SO nostalgic and happy, thank you.
I am from New York just here checking out other cities subway system compared to here in New York. I check out Chicago's now here. SEPTA seems pretty cool!
LOL that is so true. Honestly cant wait for that 2nd ave line to open up just to ride thru and and experience it. I've taken trips thru mostly all the lines out here in NY even the 7 line expansion to Hudson Yards.
Been to NY twice last year. Compared to Toronto bro you guys are living the dream lol. Like 25 lines/stns everywhere, the path trains out to NJ, 24hrs, never a delay...Toronto now, like 4 lines, delay every single damn day, nuff said lol. Love NY all day. Many many times throughout my travels I secretly wished I grew up and lived there lol. There's just so many things to see and do everywhere lol. Truly never sleeps.
Cool video. I used to ride the subway every day from City Hall to Olney for 4 years while attending Central High. Haven't been north of City Hall in over 20 years. Was neat to see it again.
Thanks for bringing back old memories of visiting philly. I remember a drunk mob of people with cops at AT&T station and entering a creepy neighborhood at another.
Lol true. I could be wrong, but if my memory serves me correctly, Tasker-Morris used to be painted with green and magenta (something like that) instead of green and orange like Erie. Race-Vine on the other hand always had the same colors as Erie
I'm impressed by how clean the stations are. Not a bit of graffiti to be seen. I remember in the early 1970s, there was spray paint on every surface. The only thing I could read was KING KOOL, with a little crown to dot the"i." The rest of it looked like it was written in a different alphabet. Some of the stuff was written on the walls opposite the platform. The only way to apply the paint would have been to stand on the tracks. Pick your poison-get electrocuted or get hit by a train.
I lived here in Philly all my life and it wasn't always this clean. It's been getting cleaner and touched up in recent years. I always loved how colorful and distinct every stop is, though. It makes our Broad Street Orange Line stand out
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Too bad funds weren't available back in the early days to extend a branch up the Roosevelt Blvd. to the great northeast. A one seat ride would be a dream come true.
I do remember larger crowds on the Broad Street line, in the 80's I remember the Navy guy's always rode the Subway, the Navy Yard is for the most part gone now. Demographics must be the reason for the low ridership.
No, he's probably riding on Sunday. Philly's city population is almost 1.6 million and increasing. Now in 2018, the trains are packed with gentrification and millenials moving into the city. Skyscrapers going up everywhere, Comcast just completed another building, a 1,121 foot skyscraper, tallest in America outside of NYC and Chicago.
All that doesn't amount to a hill of Beans if the crime rate continues to grow, and i put very little stock in Millennials, they are insignificant in terms of real economic growth. Working service Jobs, that doesn't make up for the loss of tax revenue, from long time residents moving out to the burbs. Millennials are pretty unstable, they will move along to greener pastures if the mood strikes them. The Yuppies from the 80's proved to be more stable.
How do they turn around at AT&T? Or, are they double ended and just switch tracks? And to follow up, how do MFL trains turn around at Frankford? (I know there's a loop at 69th street)
Alden Weaver MFL trains use a loop to turn around at 69th St, or out of service trains go to the yard via a separate track. One track is solely used to terminate trains at 69th St.
Alden Weaver At Frankford it is an island platform. It is out of service trains or trains arriving in service that come from or go to the Bridge Street carhouse (within the FTC parking garage complex). This runs past the station to a bridge directly above where the buses drop you off, to the carhouse
Alden Weaver At ATT it is also an island platform layout similar to Frankford, trains are not stored at ATT though. ATT has two levels island platform though usually only one level is in use unless an event is happening. All trains for BSL are stored at Fern Rock, the sole yard for the BSL.
AraZilla! If only it were that easy. besides if you need to go to city hall and you live in the Northeast Philadelphia area, its cheaper to take the train because if gas and parking.
12:40
"Everyone would appreciate it if you would stop holding the door. The train can move even if you're in the door; I don't know what makes you think that it can't. One of these days you're gonna find out the hard way. The train can absolutely move even if you're in the door! The only reason why it doesn't is because we see you in there!"
-The operator's rant
Imagine if they made that kind of announcement on the New York City Subway train if people would stop holding the doors.
i know I am kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good site to watch new series online ?
Very funny!🤣 People needed it!
@@marcosjuarez7809 I heard a conductor yelling at passengers to "let go of the god damn doors!" in the NYC subway one time, no joke!
Hopefully in about two years I'll be operating these trains. Praying for it and patiently waiting
csherard8 That'll be cool. Hope for the best.
Thanks bro. I am too. Been with the authority coming up on six years now and I'm ready to start operating the trains
csherard8 Wow, you been with SEPTA for a while. Within about a two years, I hope to be a bus operator for MTA Maryland, so I guess we both are closer to our careers than it seem.
Best of luck to you.
Yes it does. Best of luck to you as well bro. You'll get it for sure though
csherard8 Thanks.
I had ridden this Broad Line all the way except the far South (between the lines: Ellsworth and Pattison) when I was little in 1960s and 1970s.
12:54 Lol the train operator had had enough.
12:41 - What a savage operator
Must be his last day on the job.
That's what I call being real with poeple who don't care
0:15 NRG
1:46 Oregon
3:12 Snyder
4:31 Tasker - Morris
6:15 Ellsworth - Federal
7:42 Lombard- South
9:02 Walnut - Locust
10:20 City Hall
11:53 Race - Vine / Convention Center
13:05 Spring Garden
14:31 Fairmount
15:42 Girard
17:04 Cecil B. Moore / Temple University
18:41 Susquehanna - Dauphin
19:57 North Philadelphia
21:28 Allegheny
22:54 Erie
24:32 Hunting Park
25:48 Wyoming
27:11 Logan
29:17 Olney Transportation Center
33:18 Fern Rock Transportation Center
the same leaking pipes cracked stairs from forty years ago! always money for parades and concerts but never for repairs
The signage on Septa is very inconsistent and lacking in many places. It can be hard to tell what station you are at and the recording announcement on speakers don’t help deaf people and are sometimes not synced to where the trains actually are and announce the wrong station. Some subway entrances especially in north Philly have no signs at all. In center city they have round green signs at subway entrances but only in center city. I heard there used to be public rest rooms in the stations when they were first built. I imagine they were closed or destroyed for various problems but the stench of urine in some stations especially in the stairs going down is a problem too. But don’t get me started.
The rest rooms are still there, but for the passengers, only for employees.
@@calinahernandez6775 that means that the passengers’ pee is for the employees too
ATT Station actually has a lower platform. it was designed to help handle a sports game rush. I don't think its been used since the 90s though. The city had planned to build a western extension from Synder but that never happened. that is why there is that weird curve there. ironically the city owns the cars but leases them to SEPTA. the city also owns the MFL from 15th to 69th street I believe.
Fairmount is interesting because it has two platforms - one for the Broad Ridge Spur and the other side platforms for the Broad Street line. Last month when I stopped there, I wondered how people change at Fairmount for the two lines, had a quick glance at the stairs below, but I had a cheesesteak at Jimmy G's steaks at the same station on my mind so I had to leave the station before it closed.
What I observed is, the Broad Ridge Spur's platform is lower than the Broad Street line's platform, kind of offset. Honestly I would not recommend making a transfer between the two lines at Fairmount because of the amount of stairs, and it was not explicitly mentioned that it was wheelchair accessible. Maybe in the future, both parts of Fairmount can be retrofitted as such.
I don’t understand how a public transportation system is still not fully wheelchair accessible many years after the Americans with disabilities act was passed. There are many places on the SEPTA system that are still not handicap accessible.
Omg.This brings back SO many memories.I grew up down on Penrose Ave.I remember as a child back in the 70's taking the train with my mother.I would see the lights from the train coming out of the tunnel,hearing the sound and thinking,it looked like a MONSTER...My mom would squeeze my hand to assure me,everything was OK-Thats,a mother's love-😌.We usually got on at,Broad and Oregon.We could walk to the Stadium or the Spectrum down Pattison ave.South Philly.My home forever-----
That's to funny 😅😂
@@dejohnnelacy254what's so funny about it?
Pls fix the at&t text thingy its 2010-ish its supposed to be nrg ikik nrg was named in 2020
Edit: Yes this was me 2 years ago. I am stupid for asking to edit in post.
I rode the subway daily from fifth grade pretty much through when I finally moved away, since I attended school as first Spring Garden Station and then Olney. Lived up by Fern Rock. this video makes me SO nostalgic and happy, thank you.
I am from New York just here checking out other cities subway system compared to here in New York. I check out Chicago's now here. SEPTA seems pretty cool!
but nyc got 1000000000 subways if you wanna dig 4 gold there you got 100% of getting a 2nd Ave line
LOL that is so true. Honestly cant wait for that 2nd ave line to open up just to ride thru and and experience it. I've taken trips thru mostly all the lines out here in NY even the 7 line expansion to Hudson Yards.
+JaybrezziiGaming ANOTHER ONE
SEPTA WE NEED 100 new lines now all with 4 tracks
+JaybrezziiGaming ANOTHER ONE
SEPTA WE NEED A Roosevelt Blvd Subway
Buellton Ave subway
30th street subway
52nd st subway
Been to NY twice last year. Compared to Toronto bro you guys are living the dream lol. Like 25 lines/stns everywhere, the path trains out to NJ, 24hrs, never a delay...Toronto now, like 4 lines, delay every single damn day, nuff said lol. Love NY all day. Many many times throughout my travels I secretly wished I grew up and lived there lol. There's just so many things to see and do everywhere lol. Truly never sleeps.
Cool video. I used to ride the subway every day from City Hall to Olney for 4 years while attending Central High. Haven't been north of City Hall in over 20 years. Was neat to see it again.
This brought back so many childhood memories I live out in Texas now
i live in philly i love to ride the broad street line and the septa el
Thanks for bringing back old memories of visiting philly. I remember a drunk mob of people with cops at AT&T station and entering a creepy neighborhood at another.
still the H and XH bus wow
Yeah
We need an active Motorman to do a Cab Ride video!
Tasker-Morris looks like Erie from an express view in this video 😂😂😂
Lol true. I could be wrong, but if my memory serves me correctly, Tasker-Morris used to be painted with green and magenta (something like that) instead of green and orange like Erie. Race-Vine on the other hand always had the same colors as Erie
I'm impressed by how clean the stations are. Not a bit of graffiti to be seen. I remember in the early 1970s, there was spray paint on every surface. The only thing I could read was KING KOOL, with a little crown to dot the"i." The rest of it looked like it was written in a different alphabet. Some of the stuff was written on the walls opposite the platform. The only way to apply the paint would have been to stand on the tracks. Pick your poison-get electrocuted or get hit by a
train.
I lived here in Philly all my life and it wasn't always this clean. It's been getting cleaner and touched up in recent years. I always loved how colorful and distinct every stop is, though. It makes our Broad Street Orange Line stand out
he was snapping ( laughing emoji ) 12:40
Vladimir Belinski "you gone find out the hard way..the train can absolutely move with you in the door!"😂
I remember I rode this as a teen one summer day back in the 70s. It felt like a train ride in Calcutta.
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Reminds me of the 1984 music video, "Back Where We Belong" by .38 Special. Their take on the hit series, "Hill Street Blues".
Too bad funds weren't available back in the early days to extend a branch up the Roosevelt Blvd. to the great northeast. A one seat ride would be a dream come true.
Cool, never been to the Fern Rock side.
The Broad St Line is my favorite
I used to skip school and ride the subway from one end to the other. The old cars. Did the same on the El. Was this on a Sunday? Where are the crowds?
theres never any crowds really south of City Hall. mostly north for people going to Olney transit center.
Same xD The sad part is I never got caught, and I used to do it on the NHSL too
Nice! Looks clean.
We’re lucky the camera doesn’t record smells
AT&T Station Is now NRG STATION
omg ik it like super late but i live near fern rock
I'm coming 2 the US at the end of this year
These cars would look Bad Ass painted BSS Red. (Vertical Surfaces)
Its been a long while since Ive used the Broad st subway but it talks too now eh?
Razorgeist Yeah. The Kawasakis were rehabbed sometime in the later 2000s.
I missed that one with the accent.
lol
I do remember larger crowds on the Broad Street line, in the 80's I remember the Navy guy's always rode the Subway, the Navy Yard is for the most part gone now. Demographics must be the reason for the low ridership.
No, he's probably riding on Sunday. Philly's city population is almost 1.6 million and increasing. Now in 2018, the trains are packed with gentrification and millenials moving into the city. Skyscrapers going up everywhere, Comcast just completed another building, a 1,121 foot skyscraper, tallest in America outside of NYC and Chicago.
All that doesn't amount to a hill of Beans if the crime rate continues to grow, and i put very little stock in Millennials, they are insignificant in terms of real economic growth. Working service Jobs, that doesn't make up for the loss of tax revenue, from long time residents moving out to the burbs. Millennials are pretty unstable, they will move along to greener pastures if the mood strikes them. The Yuppies from the 80's proved to be more stable.
@@italobambino43 Just spit out what you really want to say rather than 😵💫Demographics must be the reason...😵💫
Susquehanna River becomes Chesapeake bay
So city hall and suburban are the same station basically?
not really no. Suburban is for Regional Rail.
City Hall BSL, 15th Street MFL, 15th Street Trolley, and Suburban are all linked to each other underground.
City Hall is for the BSL and it also connects to 15th Street Station. You can enter Suburban from City Hall though.
is fern rock a loop? like the train you got off of at fern rock, would that continue to circle around and turn into a south bound train?
+Jason Davis Yes. It's a counterclockwise loop out of the tunnel, terminate at the station then back into the subway.
How do they turn around at AT&T? Or, are they double ended and just switch tracks? And to follow up, how do MFL trains turn around at Frankford? (I know there's a loop at 69th street)
Alden Weaver MFL trains use a loop to turn around at 69th St, or out of service trains go to the yard via a separate track. One track is solely used to terminate trains at 69th St.
Alden Weaver At Frankford it is an island platform. It is out of service trains or trains arriving in service that come from or go to the Bridge Street carhouse (within the FTC parking garage complex). This runs past the station to a bridge directly above where the buses drop you off, to the carhouse
Alden Weaver At ATT it is also an island platform layout similar to Frankford, trains are not stored at ATT though. ATT has two levels island platform though usually only one level is in use unless an event is happening. All trains for BSL are stored at Fern Rock, the sole yard for the BSL.
32:10 - Some have a lot of ORANGE around the windows.
32:20 - Some have an ORANGE line under the windows.
32:31 - Some have an ORANGE line above the windows.
32:52 - Maintenance barn & Fern Rock Station - goo.gl/maps/JPJcXv1ZZT29jsxn7
The streets on broad street are named after Pennsylvania counties
Toronto has 2 subways: 1 is TTC and 2 is Scarborough RT
this is septa
2
I rather take the express instead.
Just get as car....
AraZilla! If only it were that easy. besides if you need to go to city hall and you live in the Northeast Philadelphia area, its cheaper to take the train because if gas and parking.