SEPTA Push-Pull Trains: Off The Normal Routine

While SEPTA is dealing with the Silverliner V fiasco and resulting equipment shortage, the subsequent weekday scheduling tweaking led to SEPTA's own Bombardier push-pull trains operating on routes they normally don't operate on and/or at times other than their normal times.
Seen in this video:
- Train #3553 deadheading through Rydal to Roberts Yard, where it will park out of traffic to wait for its time to continue onward to work a Paoli-Thorndale Line trip.
- Train #526 deadheading through Melrose Park to Glenside, where it will turn for a southbound trip as train #6593.
- Train #502 cruises through North Wales as seen from 3rd Street as it heads to Lansdale.
- Train #6579 (the return trip off #502) makes its presence known from 2nd Street in North Wales.
- Train 516 deadheads through North Wales enroute to Lansdale.
- Train #6589 (the return trip off #516) howls through the Mount Pleasant Street crossing in Ambler as it heads downtown.
- Train #9593 has just departed Glenside and is seen at Rices Mill Road, on approach to Jenkintown station.

[@Ih8kone]

I love these.

[@TheGlenRockianRailfan]

Are SEPTA'S Bombardier comet cars also from NJT or were they custom made for SEPTA?

[@trainman1971]

They were built for SEPTA.

[@thecooltrainguy5920]

Do the push pull trains run on weekends?

[@trainman1971]

Nope, none on weekends, or on the day after Thanksgiving.

[@thecooltrainguy5920]

Also, I'm going to Philadelphia soon. Do you know exactly when they run during AM rush?

[@trainman1971]

I can give you the current assignment lines and train numbers, but check the schedules for the exact times for the stop you want to see them at....
AM Rush
Wilmington-Newark Line: Trains 1295/9212 (a round trip, equipment comes from train 1502)
West Trenton Line: Trains 6321, 6325
Media-Elwyn Line: Train 9340
Paoli-Thorndale Line: Trains 1502, 9526, 9538
PM Rush
Wilmington-Newark Line: Trains 9251/9254 (a round trip)
West Trenton Line: Trains 6374, 6378
Paoli-Thorndale Line: Trains 9559, 9561, 1565

[@thecooltrainguy5920]

Thanks!!!

[@trainman1971]

You're welcome

[@ChesterWolf]

I thought these trains only run on Wilmington Newark line and the Paoli Thorndale

[@trainman1971]

Normally, they run on Wilmington-Newark, West Trenton, Paoli-Thorndale, Media-Elwyn (AM only), and Trenton lines (currently none on Trenton due to Amtrak track work in the area, so no place to store all the normal equipment up there).
As the description states though, nothing was normal during the summer and fall of 2016 with all the Silverliner V's out of service, so they were operating them on lines and at times not usually or normally seen to accommodate passengers on the reduced service schedules due to the equipment shortage.

[@Ih8kone]

ChesterWolf The Griffin You thought wrong!

[@trainrover]

Peculiar: charming, non-electronic crossing bells fall silent once barriers fully lowered yet trains noisily whistle on approach in sub/urban(?) setting..oh well.

[@kevinhoward9593]

hmm what would relieve overcrowding? hmmm double decker cars maybe? SEPTA is the only transit system that I know that does not have them. but apparently they are supposed to be getting them by 2022. probably more like 2032 at the earliest.

[@trainman1971]

SEPTA has 45 multilevel coaches are on order now, deliveries to be 2019 into 2020.

[@Wingnutcaseman]

Metro North and CT Rail/SLE are the only other North American commuter rail systems with no gallery or multilevel cars.

[@MykeRomeo2]

Still waiting on them, haven't heard any updates on them either..

[@ekt8750]

My god SEPTA has some of the most pathetic sounding K5LAs around.

[@tonysamtraktrainvideos]

Do you even that their decibels are a little bit similar to NJT's and they're a little bit different than the normal K5LA on Amtrak AEM-7's?

[@tonysamtraktrainvideos]

"think" forgot to put that down