Originally Posted by BroMax
I remember the 23--Germantown to South Philly. I think it's still running. When did PTC have that paint scheme? Or is that the "Philly Cream Cheese" style that looks more like powder blue and white on my screen?
Unfortunately the 23 trolley has had all but a stake through its heart. The tracks and wires still remain but it has been a bus since 1992. Only the subway surface trolleys running out of the Market Street Subway into West Phila remain in Phila; BUT the RT 15 has been revived on Girard Ave with all new air conditioned cars. It had also stopped running as a trolley since 1992.Many of the old SEPTA cars can be found all over the world in both museums and running on the streets. The dummies in Phila almost gave them away for nothing. A couple from SF still decked out in SEPTA colors were recently featured in a Dockers TV ad.
Bicycle content? Those tracks were a devil. I used to visit my grandmother by bike when I turned 12. She lived a block from where the picture with the white 47 trolley was taken. It was a 10 mile ride each way, much of it on trolley track streets as pictured.
I lived a half block from where the 52 trolley picture was taken and spilled my newspapers on the 52 trolley tracks.
As you can see Trolley came in many color schemes but the Green and Cream was the standard. Click on the pictures below to enlarge:
