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Rush-hour service will be at 30-minute intervals on most lines, according to SEPTA, but commuters should expect more crowded trains. All 120 Silverliner Vs, which SEPTA got between 2010 and 2013 ...
"Our first job was the SEPTA Silverliner used by Philadelphia ... "They had problems with their Silverliner V trains. They had cracks in the component in the trucks. They brought the trucks ...
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 ...
Hyundai produced Silverliner V cars for SEPTA at a plant in South Philadelphia, but the agency temporarily pulled those cars from service for repairs in 2016 due to defective parts. For the China ...
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.
Philadelphia commuter trains returned to full rush-hour capacity Monday, three months after flaws found in Silverliner V rail cars forced ... Authority (SEPTA) announced. SEPTA announced over ...
SEPTA_SOCIAL (@SEPTA_SOCIAL) October 3, 2016 SEPTA officials said that the move was made possible as 50 of the 120 Silverliner V cars return to service. The agency will continue to lease trains ...
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 ...
Inspectors had found a fractured beam on one car and fatigue cracks on almost all other Silverliner V cars. The beams are being replaced. SEPTA has followed “a very aggressive return-to-service ...
Some of the 120 Silverliner V railway cars taken out of service by SEPTA are shown in the Powelton storage yard in west Philadelphia. The Philadelphia area's main transit agency has begun ...
PHILADELPHIA >> SEPTA officials Thursday morning revealed some findings under the hood of their newest trains, the Silverliner V, which were taken out of commission last week when a stress ...