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Silverliner is the name given to a series of electric multiple unit (EMU) railcars in commuter rail service in the Philadelphia area since 1958. As of the introduction of the Silverliner V in 2009–2010, there have been 5 generations of Silverliner cars, identified by the Roman numerals I through V placed after the name Silverliner.
The Budd Silverliner was a model of electric multiple unit railcar designed and built by the Budd Company with 59 examples being delivered starting in 1963. Fifty-five of the cars were purchased for the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads with public funds for use in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area commuter rail service with the remaining 4 cars being purchased by USDOT for use in high-speed ...
Silverliner V SEPTA Regional Rail train at Wilmington station. The line north of Wilmington was originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad.The original alignment was opened January 17, 1838, and on November 18, 1872, a realignment opened north of Chester (part of the old route is now used for the Airport Line).
A Reading Company Silverliner II at Doylestown in 1970. The Lansdale/Doylestown Line utilizes what is known as the SEPTA Main Line, a four-track line that has been owned by SEPTA since 1983. Prior to that, it was owned by Conrail between 1976 and 1983 and by the Reading Railroad before 1976.
The Silverliner V is an electric multiple unit railcar designed and built by Hyundai Rotem. It is used by Philadelphia 's SEPTA Regional Rail and Denver 's Regional Transportation District . This is the fifth generation railcar in the Silverliner family of single level EMUs.
The exposure index at these three crossings was already high more than a decade ago when the N.C. Department of Transportation and the City of Durham studied 18 crossings along the N.C. Railroad ...
The first westbound morning trip of Amtrak's Silverliner Service also stopped at the station. [4] The station was burned by vandals on August 16, 1980. Conrail bused passengers until the 23rd, when SEPTA chose to outright close the station. [1] The station came down in 1995 as part of revitalization efforts. [5]
With railroad companies like BNSF Railway and Union Pacific operating in the Fort Worth area, it’s likely that drivers have dealt with backed up traffic at a railroad crossing at least once ...