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No vehicles have been added to the fleet since the 1980s, but the fleet was refurbished by SEPTA staff around 2000. [18] Vehicles include air conditioning, large windows, door-opening sensors for the rear doors, and an automated system to display and announce upcoming stops. K-Car no. 9000 was painted in a special heritage scheme in March 2024 ...
The original fleet of ten 23-foot-2-inch (7.06 m) Brill "Rail-less Cars" of 1923–24 was replaced in 1935 by eight Brill T30 vehicles, another short vehicle. With the conversion of the major Ridge Avenue route (61) to trolley buses in 1941, Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) again turned to Brill for the needed additional vehicles.
The 112 vehicles used on the SEPTA Subway–Surface trolley lines (Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) were built by Kawasaki beginning in 1981 after a 1980 prototype was delivered and tested. Known as "K-cars", they use the 5 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (1,581 mm) Pennsylvania trolley gauge. Larger than the replaced PCC cars they are 50 feet long and capable ...
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