Buses will continue to provide some service along the Girard Avenue route to meet passenger demand as eight green-and-cream '40s trolleys return to work Sunday.
Restored 1947 trolleys will return to Girard Avenue’s Route 15 next week. SEPTA says it’s not a rumor this time.
A restored 1947 trolley at the SEPTA Woodland Shop in Philadelphia in August 2022. The 18 trolleys are being rebuilt before they are put back in service.Next week, restored 1947 trolleys will once again rumble and squeal on the Route 15 tracks along Girard Avenue after more than four years in the shop, where
“It takes a lot of work to get them ready,” Busch said. “Each trolley has had 200 miles on the road already, during the ‘burn-in’ period,” an industry term for breaking in a new vehicle.for evaluation and maintenance. They’d last been overhauled in 2002 at a factory in Western Pennsylvania. SEPTA announced the trolleys would be back the next year, but the pandemic, and then supply-chain issues, lengthened their absence. And it turned out the vehicles needed extensive work.
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