Eighteen defective Silverliner V train cars that had been repaired and returned – or readied to return – to service have been removed again from SEPTA's Regional Rail system. The Silverliner ...

Following news reports about issues on the Silverliner V assembly line, Luther Diggs, SEPTA’s assistant general manager for operations, gave reporters a status update on production after Thursday’s ...

At 8:49 this morning, the first four SEPTA Silverliner V railcars to be repaired were returned to service on an inbound run to Center City from Fox Chase. At about the same time in Bensalem ...

SEPTA and Hyundai Rotem have three possible options for returning the Silverliner V railcars to revenue service: Repair the damaged equalizer bars. Replace the damaged bars and attach the new ones ...

SEPTA’s Silverliner V cars were sidelined by a problem that has dogged mechanical engineers for as long as they have worked with metal: fatigue. That is the term for microscopic cracks that can ...

SEPTA has taken 120 Silverliner V Regional Rail cars out of service because of what officials termed as "a significant structural defect." "SEPTA has identified a significant structural defect ...

Marking roughly the halfway point in the delivery of its new Silverliner V regional rail fleet, SEPTA has rolled out an advertising campaign to pump riders up about the new train cars. The campaign, ...

SEPTA on Saturday took all 120 of its Silverliner V Regional Rail cars -- which make up a third of its rail fleet -- out of service for inspection and repairs. SEPTA General Manager Jeffrey ...

SEPTA assistant general manager of operations Ron Hopkins addressed the media Thursday morning and showed off the Silverliner V railcars at SEPTA’s Overbrook shop. Cracks were found on all but ...

I experienced a first climbing onboard SEPTA’s regional rail at Suburban Station Friday morning — a new car smell. Yes, the new Silverliner V arrived as promised and set out from Track 0 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Nearly three dozen of SEPTA's Silverliner V regional rail cars are still out of service, but the transit agency says they'll be back on the rails by the end of the month.

It had the contract for those troubled Silverliner V cars that were yanked from service last summer because of defective parts. SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch says that discovery made the Authority ...