The tour would convene at 10am, but due to some other plans that got made and then canceled I found myself at 30th St station at 7:30am with not much to do. As the local NTD exhibits were not yet set up I made my way to the trusty old 30th St parking garage to get some photos of what was in the yards that day. Later the tour would get back to 30th St en route to 69th St for a shoppe tour, but due to some delays I had to pack it in early in order to make some scheduled appointments.
You can find all of the photos of the tour and related explorations here
We begin at the Race St engine terminal with Heritage painted B32-8W #512 in the dock behind P42DC #160.
NS GP40-2 #3029 was hanging out for some reason.
AEM-7 #950 was there with a Keystone trainset. In a previous photo I caught it in the act of lowering its pantograph.
The whole menagerie out of "yard" power at Race Street including the
afformentioned Geep, Amtrak GP38H-3 #523 and GP15 #578 a the Juniata
Terminal road slug pair with 9725 and 8850.
Juniata Terminal SW1500 from above.
PRR #120 in Penn Coach Yard.
Metroliner Cab Cars #9638, #9644 and #9645.
Moving on to 1234 Market the group was given a comprehensive introduction to the SEPTA system in a 10th floor meeting room by one of SEPTA's community relations manager. After that we were taken up to the top floor where the operations center for all of SEPTA's divisions is located. After another briefing in the operations conference room, with its flat screen monitors set to display the entire Market Frankford Line. Unfortunately almost all the "big boards" were down for some sort of maintenance :-( Here is the Heavy Rail dispatch desks covering the MFL and BSS.
VDU display for the dispatcher handling the north end of the Broad Street Subway. Click for a larger view.
MFL dispatching desk showing the model board VDU and display screens for CCTV cameras. Click for a larger version.
