Complete outdoor RFW from Wawa to Norristown. A history lesson too. 8/25/22

A trip down memory lane! Thanks❤

What a great morning in the garage doing chores............ yes honey I'll be right in. Thanks, so much interesting information. Cheers

I used to park my car on the street near the Clifton-Aldan station and take the 102 trolley and the Market-Frankford line into Center City. Then I would come back on this train. (Or, vice versa.) It was nice having two rather differnt types of rail transit that crossed at the same point.

FYI: Denver RTD commuter rail use a newer version of the rolling stock, in married pairs. The Denver Airport branch only use 4 cars at 15 minute headway. All stations are high level-wheelchair accessible. Saying the latter, keeps me from moving back East as I get older. Seeing this line has me scratching my head about "transit" for the future back East... Thank you for the time and effort of shooting ALL of your train footage, plus the history lesson! [Me: a prior rider of the North Jersey Coast Line; Bay Head to NYC]

Awesome, informative video! That unidentified railroad bridge between Conshohocken and Norristown is the Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad which crosses the Schuylkill River, the former RDG and PRR right-of-ways. Allen Wood Steel had plants on both sides of the river connected by the UM&P.

The original routing of the West Chester line was to West Trenton. Some trains would end either in Glenside or Jenkintown.

I've been on both lines to/from Center City Phildelphia. And when Media was PRR territory; Norristown only after SEPTA took over. I have ridden both lines as SEPTA. This review is real nostalgic. Thanks Tim😀😀💚

SEPTA's Regional Rail is clearly a part of the nation's Railway Network!

When I lived in this area, the Primos station was a dump! No platforms, and the "station" was a house trailer! Look at it now (25:21)! And the Gladstone station (28:36) is adjacent to an apartment complex just off to the right. Imagine being able to live in a nice suburban apartment and being able to WALK to your commuter train!

Your videos are invaluable Tim, and it's always nice to get a history lesson along with the views. You won't learn this stuff anywhere else!

Very scenic line with all the curves through the woods. Swarthmore looks like it would be a neat town to explore if the handsome old station is any indication!

So great that you added captions to this video! Thanks for all you do

Love the graphics great addition to already outstanding videos. Look forward to the line maybe getting extended back to West Chester. Would be great with growth in that area and the University students.

Yes - Media and Springfield are both on US 1 - and as a result, are connected by it to each other. I have no idea whether this line goes through Springfield, but it DOES go through the same area that Paoli/Thorndale does where the two lines darn near meet before 30th Street Station (Conshohohocken east to Philadelphia County and the city of Phjiladelpha - the west shore of the Schuylkill River) - you can see the Manayunk/Norristown Line on the other side because the high tension lines that straddle it.

Cobbs Creek (34:03) is the Philadelphia city limit on this line. 49th Street (36:56) used to be a dinky little whistle stop; another station that has been vastly improved. You should show the interior of Jefferson Station on a future video; it is unusually bright and colorful for an underground station, a far cry from the dingy Suburban Station.

It would be nice if they just extended it to west Chester that would bring up the ridership to 90-100%

As you start moving right where that first signal is used to be the cutoff for the octorara line through Southern Chester County. Also it's pronounced Len-eye... Lenni

54:27 well technically the line was built by the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown RR.

Trains go so slow just like nyc subway did 35 years ago, before they replaced the worn out track.

Interlocking at 22:50 is "CANE", controlled from SEPTA's RROC in Center City Philadelphia