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Route 62; Anyone know anyting?
Topic Started: Apr 5 2009, 08:38 PM (1,176 Views)
Southern_8100
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Could someone give me some history on the route 62? The only things i know is that it ran between between Yeadon Loop and Darby Loop.

When did it come into existence?

Did K-cars ever run on the 62, or was it abandoned before they were placed into service?
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Southern_8100
Apr 5 2009, 08:38 PM
Could someone give me some history on the route 62? The only things i know is that it ran between between Yeadon Loop and Darby Loop.

When did it come into existence?

Did K-cars ever run on the 62, or was it abandoned before they were placed into service?
The 62 has been around since the PRT days and for the most part paid for by Darby Borough. It was shortly after SEPTA was born that the 62 was dissolved into the existing Route 13 as a peak extension. When Elmwood Depot was built in '82 in response to the Woodland fire, the 13 Pull-Ins and Pull-Outs was incorporated into the existing Peak 13 Darby runs. In the early '90's the off street loop tracks was in bad shape and the Peak runs was cut back to Darby, but the main rails was still used by the pull ins and outs so they took over and the loop was abandoned.
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redarrow5591
Apr 6 2009, 07:32 AM
The 62 has been around since the PRT days and for the most part paid for by Darby Borough. It was shortly after SEPTA was born that the 62 was dissolved into the existing Route 13 as a peak extension. When Elmwood Depot was built in '82 in response to the Woodland fire, the 13 Pull-Ins and Pull-Outs was incorporated into the existing Peak 13 Darby runs. In the early '90's the off street loop tracks was in bad shape and the Peak runs was cut back to Darby, but the main rails was still used by the pull ins and outs so they took over and the loop was abandoned.
Elmwood opened to streetcar operations in the November of 1981.

From January 1971(when the 62 was incorporated into the 13) through the early 90s, usage of the off street reservation trackage @ Darby loop for route 13 was sporadic at best, however, one could ride a 13 car to Darby & come right back out on that same car after a mini layover.

In 2009, that is only a memory.

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redarrow5591
Apr 6 2009, 07:32 AM
In the early '90's the off street loop tracks was in bad shape and the Peak runs was cut back to Darby, but the main rails was still used by the pull ins and outs so they took over and the loop was abandoned.
Haven't been down there in a while, but do you know if the off-street tracks and overhead wire are still there? Or did SEPTA remove it?
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I think the ground took over the off-street tracks and the wire is down by now.
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A site called Phila. Trolley Tracks has track maps.
Here's a rather bad copy of a section showing the old 62 Route in 1944.

Today , everything is paved over ,and the wire I believe is gone from that "thru the woods" routing.

It was covered above how the 13 took over , after that, and the routing today is for pull-ins and pull -outs.

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Actually, I think bits & pieces of the overhead wire still hang over the "wooded section". The poles are still in place, & in fact, they have been painted into the traditional Elmwood "dark green".

The track from the wooded section(reservation) blends into the current inbound route 13 pullout track along 9th street. I thinik an overhead switch(reservation to 9th) still hangs over that track as well.

@ Darby Terminal, you can see the layover track(south on Main, east into the loop to reservation) for route 13, as well as the overhead switch(south on Main to east into the loop to reservation) that,at one time, the cars asssigned to route 13 used

At one time, the proprietor of a luncheonette occupied the vacant buliding immediately following the "exit".
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The tracks are still in place. The wire is down. I was there today and looked at it.
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Here's a great picture of the old days @ DARBY LOOP.

That's either a 13 or a 62 (the Gulf Oil car), depends on the year of the picture.

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Apr 20 2009, 11:13 AM
Here's a great picture of the old days @ DARBY LOOP.

That's either a 13 or a 62 (the Gulf Oil car), depends on the year of the picture.

Chuck
Says 13 in the pic.
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