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SEPTA XHE40 In Service
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SEPTA Deploys Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses on Route 23

Philadelphia, PA – After about a year of acceptance, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has finally debut their New Flyer XHE40 Buses in revenue service on route 23. In April 2024, SEPTA ceremoniously retired their final fully diesel bus and simultaneously introduced Philadelphians to the first hydrogen fuel cell-electric bus SEPTA owned. At the time, SEPTA…

SEPTA’s Doomsday Plans Come Closer to Reality

SEPTA’s Doomsday Plans Come Closer to Reality

Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has had an annual service plan today, addressing the massive budget shortfall that will affect the system. While most are fully aware of the regional rail cuts that are proposed, the cuts proposed to the bus system is massive as well, and will drastically affect the system….

NJ Transit Rail is on STRIKE
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NJ Transit Rail is on STRIKE

Edit: May 18th – The NJ Transit Rail Strike has ENDEDAs of right now, New Jersey Transit‘s Railroad, the nation’s largest state-wide railroad operation, is on strike. “Due to a strike by locomotive engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), all NJ TRANSIT rail service is currently suspended” – NJ Transit…

SEPTA Metro B Shuttle Bus
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SEPTA Begins Their Route Transformation

Philadelphia, PA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority or SEPTA has made the first major step towards changing the transit system. Starting February 23rd, 2025, SEPTA will finally retire the lettered bus routes in favor of numbers. On this same date, SEPTA will officially begin using the SEPTA Metro branding thorough the system. To start, SEPTA is…

NJ Transit Rail NJ Transit light rail to Bayonne Kinki-Sharyo LRV Uploaded By: SatoruGojo

Photo of the Month, September/October 2024

Congratulations to SatoruGojo for winning Photo of The Month for September 2024 with this picture of the New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. This month’s theme was “Reason’s to Ride NJ Transit”. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs related to NJ Transit or any reason to ride the system, in honor of the…

SEPTA Hitachi Rail STS Market-Frankford Line car render from SEPTA's Twitter Page
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New SEPTA Metro Cars to be Built by Hitachi

Philadelphia, PA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, aka SEPTA, has announced earlier this week that Hitachi Rail STS will be building new Metro cars on SEPTA’s heaviest line. This is a base $724.3 million contract for 200 rail cars, with potential for an additional 40 cars. The pilot set of this order is due in 2029,…

SEPTA PCC Trolley, Old Logo for SEPTA Route 15

SEPTA’s Historic Trolley Cars Return to Girard Avenue

Philadelphia, PA: After over four years of being out of service for repair, SEPTA’s fleet of historic Presidential Conference Committee (PCC) trolley cars have finally returned to the rails today, June 16th, 2024. In February 2020, SEPTA pulled all eighteen PCC-II trolley cars out of service due to, at the time, only 4 being in…