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

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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • 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
    @memberberries1925 Год назад +13

    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
      @3985uprr  Год назад +5

      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
    @hexagram56 Год назад +3

    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!

  • @alex84896
    @alex84896 Год назад +2

    Absolutely awesome video sir

  • @scottyerkes1867
    @scottyerkes1867 Год назад +1

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

  • @thewmreed
    @thewmreed Год назад +3

    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
      @3985uprr  Год назад

      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.

  • @robertcantore330
    @robertcantore330 Год назад +1

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

  • @sepa2401
    @sepa2401 Год назад +2

    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
      @hornshowrailfan2554 Год назад

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

    • @sepa2401
      @sepa2401 Год назад

      @@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!

  • @sethtriggs
    @sethtriggs Год назад +2

    Really nice run! And always enjoy your narration too.

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад

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

  • @fredredmon5828
    @fredredmon5828 Год назад +2

    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

  • @billclements3879
    @billclements3879 11 месяцев назад +1

    Cool ride😊

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад +1

    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.)

  • @georgejenista9487
    @georgejenista9487 Год назад +3

    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?

  • @diannegoopta4091
    @diannegoopta4091 Год назад +1

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

  • @trevornorman1260
    @trevornorman1260 Год назад +1

    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
      @3985uprr  Год назад

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

  • @hornshowrailfan2554
    @hornshowrailfan2554 Год назад

    Keep them coming!!!

  • @zazaranger5
    @zazaranger5 Год назад +6

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад +2

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

    • @zazaranger5
      @zazaranger5 Год назад +1

      @@3985uprr Exactly Tim👍

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад +1

      @@zazaranger5There will be more the rest of the year

  • @johnburke1317
    @johnburke1317 Год назад +1

    Nice video 👋

  • @isleman9473
    @isleman9473 Год назад +2

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад +1

      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.

  • @JH-yw8vb
    @JH-yw8vb Год назад +1

    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

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад +1

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

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад +2

    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
      @3985uprr  Год назад

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

  • @3985uprr
    @3985uprr  Год назад +2

    The resolution will improve give it some time

  • @boxerstudful
    @boxerstudful Год назад +2

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад

      Saw it later at Suburban

  • @zazaranger5
    @zazaranger5 Год назад +1

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

  • @NE-Explorer
    @NE-Explorer 11 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes.

    • @NE-Explorer
      @NE-Explorer 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@3985uprr Thank you for the information.

  • @Dirk-jx7yq
    @Dirk-jx7yq Год назад +1

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

  • @dutchvanderlinde154
    @dutchvanderlinde154 Год назад +1

    Great video

  • @jackchen7003
    @jackchen7003 Год назад +3

    Denver’s RTD use the same Silverliners

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад +1

      Interiors are not the same. No railfan window.

  • @OldsVistaCruiser
    @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад +1

    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.

  • @robg9236
    @robg9236 Год назад +3

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад +1

      People have said that

    • @zazaranger5
      @zazaranger5 Год назад

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

    • @OldsVistaCruiser
      @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад

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

    • @3985uprr
      @3985uprr  Год назад

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

  • @juliusmay8712
    @juliusmay8712 11 месяцев назад

    Are the women train operators on septa go fast , moderate or slow iyo?

  • @1superloki
    @1superloki Год назад +1

    What does flashing over rd signal mean?

    • @OldsVistaCruiser
      @OldsVistaCruiser Год назад

      Flashing green over red is proceed at cab signal speed.

  • @juliusmay8712
    @juliusmay8712 11 месяцев назад

    I was wondering was this an all women crew operating the train?