Congratulations to kenrobinette for winning Photo of The Month for July 2024 with this amazing photo of this Sound Transit Gillig Phantom making a left turn from Stewart Street onto 2nd Avenue in Seattle, WA. This month’s theme was Gilligs All Around. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs of…
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…
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 and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have reached an agreement, and the three-day NJ Transit Strike is to end. NJ Transit says regular NJ Transit Rail service is to resume on Tuesday, May 20th. Although an agreement was reached, the next 24 hours will be dedicated to making sure all…
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…
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…
I am aware of the issue with OneDrive. I know that download links are mostly temporarily unavailable. Sometime in the mid-summer, Microsoft changed how direct linking to OneDrive files worked, and that broke many links on the site. So what can we do? Wait. I’m in the process of re-uploading all the files to the…
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…
Newark, NJ: For a historic first time, New Jersey Transit eliminates fares throughout the whole system for an entire week. This “fare holiday” as NJ Transit call it, begins tomorrow, August 26th, and continues through September 2nd. Fares will be required again on transit beginning September 3rd. On the back of a summer full of…
Congratulations to Nascarfan20105 for winning Photo of The Month for August 2024 with fairly detailed photo of two CTA Novas signed up for route 53. This month’s theme was “…at night”. All members of the discord server were invited to submit their photographs of any type of transit operating at night time, and the winner…
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,…
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…
