POV Cab Ride | SEPTA Regional Rail | Philadelphia to Delaware | Wilmington-Newark Line Train 5217

This video, recorded in the passenger cab on the front end of a Hyundai Rotem Silverliner V EMU, shows the southbound trip of SEPTA Regional Rail's train 5217 on the Wilmington-Newark Line from Penn Medicine Station in Philadelphia, PA, to Claymont Station in Claymont, DE in real time.
The majority of this train ride took place along the Northeast Corridor south of Philadelphia.
I did initially board the train at Philadelphia's William H. Gray III 30th street station. But I had struggled to properly mount my camera on board the train. By the time my camera was good to go, the train had already arrived at Penn Medicine Station. Thus this POV video starts with the train at that station.
Please excuse the fact that due to camera mount not being compatible with any surfaces or positions within the train car, I had to put the camera on a monopod and hold it by hand. This setup essentially completely eliminated unwanted front and back and up and down motions of my camera. Unfortunately I had trouble controlling the excessive left to right yaw motion of my camera while the train was in motion. This made the quality of this video less than ideal. I apologize in advance. :(
Circa March 2022. This video was recorded in full HD and at 60FPS.
I've time stamped moments when the train made stops at stations and when the train passed by points of interest:
0:00 Intro
0:09 Title Card
0:14 The Departure Board at the 30th Street Station showing the status of my train
0:19 View of train 5217 approaching the platform of 30th Street Station from the east
0:48 Boarding the train
1:00 Start of the POV segment
1:03 Departure from Penn Medicine Station
4:22 View of a northbound Amtrak Northeast Regional Train
7:30 Stop at Darby Station
8:14 Departure from Darby Station
9:06 Stop at Curtis Park Station
10:04 Departure from Curtis Park Station
10:46 Stop at Sharon Hill Station
11:20 Departure from Sharon Hill Station
12:07 Stop at Folcroft Station
12:52 Departure from Folcroft Station
13:42 Stop at Glenolden Station
14:24 Departure from Glenolden Station
15:21 Stop at Norwood Station
16:00 Departure from Norwood Station
16:43 Stop at Prospect Park Station
17:17 Departure from Prospect Park Station
18:12 Stop at Ridley Park Station
18:50 Departure from Ridley Park Station
19:57 Stop at Crum Lynne Station
20:32 Departure from Crum Lynne Station
20:58 Rapid acceleration of the Silverliner V
21:51 Passing Eddystone Station
22:44 Stop at Chester Transportation Center Station
23:40 Departure from Chester Transportation Center Station
24:20 Higher speed running along the Northeast Corridor
25:58 Stop at Highland Avenue Station
26:31 Departure from Highland Avenue Station
28:15 Stop at Marcus Hook Station
29:02 Departure from Marcus Hook Station
30:00 Higher speed running along the Northeast Corridor
32:57 Stop at Claymont Station
33:24 View of train 5217's departure from Claymont Station
34:25 Thanks for watching! Subscribe?

[@MelvinVonMTodd]

Love that line! Right to Wilmington after Claymont, where I’m from.

[@PGHammer21A]

My relatives are from Marcus Hook (next station up and first station in PA) - because I took AMTRAK, I got off in Wilmington (at what is now the BTC on DE 4).

[@opencirclefleet]

*TImestamps*
*Pennsylvania*
*SEPTA Fare Zone C*
*SEPTA West Chester Branch*
01:02 Penn Medicine (SEPTA Regional Rail: Airport Line, Media/Elwyn Line, Manayunk/Norristown Line, Warminster Line, and West Trenton Line; SEPTA City Bus: 30, 40, 42, 49, LUCY)
02:11 _SEPTA Airport Line Splits from SEPTA West Chester Branch_
02:27 *SEPTA Airport Line*
04:23 _Crossover with Amtrak Northeast Corridor_
05:10 _SEPTA Airport Line Leaves Alignment_
05:13 *Amtrak Northeast Corridor*
*SEPTA Fare Zone 2*
07:37 Darby
09:12 Curtis Park (SEPTA Suburban Bus: 115)
10:51 Sharon Hill (SEPTA Media-Sharon Hill Line: Route 102 @ Sharon Hill; SEPTA Suburban Bus: 115)
12:17 Folcroft (SEPTA Suburban Bus: 115)
13:54 Glenolden
15:26 Norwood
16:45 Prospect Park
*SEPTA Fare Zone 3*
18:23 Ridley Park
19:59 Crum Lynne (SEPTA Suburban Bus: 114)
21:54 Eddystone (SKIPPED)
23:01 Chester Transportation Center (SEPTA City Bus: 37; SEPTA Suburban Bus: 109, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119)
26:04 Highland Avenue (SEPTA Suburban Bus: 113)
27:56 _Linwood Track Splits_
28:21 Marcus Hook (SEPTA Suburban Bus: 119)
*Delaware*
*SEPTA Fare Zone 4*
33:03 Claymont (DART First State: 31, 61)

[@coastoftheweather3355]

Love the sound on this

[@coastoftheweather3355]

Got the same exact same train as the train car 860 as well. Engine sound was awesome. Got it from Miquon station to Jefferson on the Norristown line

[@sethtriggs]

This is really cool.
OMG I think the forward leaf of the center door was stuck open on the second train!

[@anthonywoodfolkjr1116]

Thanks for sharing.

[@PGHammer21A]

I only took this line on AMTRAK (not SEPTA) - and that was from New Carrolton to the Wilminington BTC (1987 was last trip).

[@jimpern]

When I arrived in Delaware County in 1984, I laughed at the fact that they called these "High Speed Lines" at the time, since the stations are so close together that they are anything but! I approved of the terminology change to "Regional Rail Lines" later. I only ever traveled as far as Ridley Park. I couldn't confirm that these trains were even capable of "high speeds" until I rode an older-model SEPTA Silverliner from NYC to PHL on the Corridor, loaned to Amtrak on Thanksgiving Day. That train cruised at 90 MPH!

[@AlexCab_49]

I want to go to the Northeast just to ride their commuter rail systems

[@PikalaxALT]

aww, you skipped the 30th Street to Penn Medicine segment...

[@Shuotography]

Sorry about that. I had trouble finding a way to mount my camera when I first got on the train. As a result of that I ended up holding my camera up with a monopod. But it took time to set it up. By the time everything was ready to go, the train had already arrived at Penn Medicine.

[@cats0182]

Still some of the old PRR 3 bulb position light signals hanging around?

[@kevinhoward9593]

the motors sound different

[@allanhfchin]

Is any kind of permit needed to make a video from that position? I rode the SEPTA CHW line a few times from Center City to Chestnut Hill about a year ago while visiting a friend, and every time I tried to video my ride from the front seat I got yelled at by the train operator, who also threatened to call the police if I didn't stop videoing! Needless to say I was very disappointed I had to stop videoing, but I didn't want to cause any trouble. Is there anything I can say or do, for future reference?...

[@Shuotography]

Well in practice the policy in regards to this and the actual enforcement aspect of it seems kind of inconsistent. Technically I have only ridden the SEPTA trains twice thus far. The first train ride was the one captured in this video. Both the conductor and engineer had seen me but neither said a thing about my filming while sitting down and holding the camera on a monopod and both tolerated it. On the return trip, which was on a Silverliner 4, the conductor stopped my filming. But remember that the Silverliner 4 had a rear facing door behind a full width cab and I had to use a suction mount to mount my camera on the glass. So it's tricky to say whether there is an universal policy against filming that's not always enforced or rather I was told to stop because I mounted a camera on their partition glass.

[@allanhfchin]

@@Shuotography Thanks, I really appreciate hearing about your experience with videoing! 🙏