SEPTA Wandering '98

Hi-8 video I shot around SEPTA regional rail, MFSE with 1960 Budd cars, bus and streetcar views and a trip to Wilmington and back. After the intro music, natural sound. My favorite part is the ruin that was Chester station. Date stamped Nov. 1998.

[@Tyree89733]

The EL Stop OMG its Takes me back 8:29

[@franksanders1634]

i miss them seats on the el ....now the el got seats like the buses

[@kidnyce3773]

frank sanders exactly

[@havenas1020yt]

Wooooow a lot of childhood memories at Suburban Station and 46th Street came rushing back to me. Thank you so much for this

[@kidnyce3773]

underneath the trains today is small those were bigger and wider

[@apro_zbruh]

2:00 Yoooooo I forgot that’s how 52 woodland use to look like that now it’s a whole upgrade

[@jamesbarno9541]

I Miss Those Days In 1998

[@byrondarden2321]

Wow... Just wow ❤💯

[@jvohanian]

Great video! I especially love the interior shots of the old Silverliner interiors, before they were refurbished. Great stuff.

[@trainluvr]

I agree.

[@fredpohl5202]

I hope someday to get photos of the Silverliner V,s

[@jabgaming2592]

Who misses the old Elevated Structure between 46th Street & 69th Stree

[@elirosen1391]

Did you ever use PATCO in those days?

[@kevinwong6588]

Not 1998, since some of the SEPTA commuter equipment still lack "ditch lights", which were required starting 1997 and mandatory afterwards. I'm suspecting autumn '97.

[@trainluvr]

So you didnt like the video?

[@kevinwong6588]

No, just that the date may have been off. Still a great time capsule.

[@Bqrufz1]

@1810 the date on the camcorder says November 3 1998....assuming all the video was taken the same year... so at least the video wasn't totally misleading as there was footage from 1998 assuming the camcorder had the right date. sooo who knows. great video btw. also according to a "TRAINS" magazine post "railroads almost always miss the statutory deadlines sometimes by years".... it was required on new locomotive made after march 1996 and that ditch lights were mandated December 31 1997.... is it possible that the rr was conceivably late.. look at positive train control ... how many railroads are ready for the upcoming mandate in 2017? just saying it is possible he was right.

[@trainluvr]

Also, there is a promotional poster inside the first Silverliner that says 98.

[@Bqrufz1]

thanks for the back up. I didn't catch that

[@kevinhoward9593]

13:39 where is that?

[@trainluvr]

Wilmington, the garden spot of the Northeast Corridor.