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| Interesting plaque thing in N-town; To the Transportation Center! | |
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| Tritransit Area | Oct 7 2007, 06:09 PM Post #1 |
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While walking from the Rite-Aid in Norristown (which is hardly ever open) I came across this walkway, which I used to return to NTC. While walking, i found this thing:![]() Too bad it's broken up, but it looked like it was pretty nice! I wonder when that was installed. |
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| Reeko_8197 | Oct 7 2007, 08:34 PM Post #2 |
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Northeast Philadelphia Reporter
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reginal rail bus and norristown line rt 100 |
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| TRANSIT_FREAK | Oct 7 2007, 08:45 PM Post #3 |
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to Life, Love & LOOT
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Those are called mosaics they use tiles sometimes multicolored to make an interesting pictures moslty found in greece, church windows , susquehanna-duaphin station, and market east station It was probally the entance walkway to NTC. Was it? regional rail train R6, Buses 90, 91, 93, 96,97, 98,99, Norristown high speed line 100 As you see the mosaic needs an update. |
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| CACrafter88bk2504 | Oct 7 2007, 09:58 PM Post #4 |
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The Norritstown Transportion Center was completed in either 1988 or 1989. At that time, that plaque was installed. The original P & W track ran on an elevated structure up to Main & Swede Streets. Frontier really took a major whipping within the last decade. In 1998, SEPTA management tried to enforce the concept of hiring part time operators to be assigned to Frontier division. Regretfully they made good on their promise. Back in the summer of 1997, SEPTA sent the 1989 Neo EZ suburbans assigned to Frontier(3450-3455, 3457-3458,3460,3464-3465,3471-3474-- 15 buses) to Allegheny & Callowhill(3451,3458,3465 & 3474 went to Callowhill, the rest went to Allegheny). Goodbye suburbans. That is when they started sending them junk to accomodate the then new NABIs up there(5135,5137,5140-5141,5143,5145-5147,5151 and 5326-5335-- 20 NABIs). I nearly cried. Around the fall of 1997, Frontier lost 8857-8859 to Red Arrow. 8851 for some reason was retired much too soon. An inside source told me that the undercarriage of 8851 rotted out. I don't know as to how true that was. To me, Frontier division has never been the same since. Then they started toying with Oxford Valley with the implementation of the Fords & route restructurings. I think many of the veteran operators up there "wrapped it up" & pursued other opportunities. One that I remember was an operator named Al Talley. "Schriber" rings a bell(he won an award at the 1991 SEPTA Roadeo). Anyone remember 8852? 8852 was a speed demon when it was assigned to Frontier division. It looked a little worn before it got repainted. |
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