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PTV forum member Reeko_8197 spotted Silverliner IV #280 with a LED sign. The sign resembles the exact same units that are mounted on the rear of the New Flyer hybrid buses. Over the year 280 was chosen to test out the new wireless recievers for the new Silverliner Vs which is expected to be delievered over the next 2 years. 280 also had an interesting device mounted on the on the top left corner of the car.

Reeko_8197 spotted 280 today at Suburban station 

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Later last night, 8425 has been delivered to Southern, this completes the list of which depots will receive the New Flyer DE40LFRs. It's been reported that Southern WILL indeed get the remaining 35 of these restyles. According to the "Southern's Number 1 Informants", the lucky driver of the day to receive this bus was on 7357 on the route 37. They also reported that all of the 5000 with the 5100s assigned at Southern will be scrapped within the next few weeks.  Be sure to check out the forums (http://philadelphiatransitforums.cjb.net/index/) for more infomation.

According our newest member on the forums, Phillydriver, Frankford still has three to four restyles that still needs to be delivered. During the past several weeks, the delivery of these restyles offset the recently overhauled Zfers (5775-5799) off to Comly. By doing this, this enabled SEPTA to scrap some of their remaining nabis at comly.

The offical break down for the 2010 order of New flyers restyles are: 8340-8379 (40), Victory; 8380-8404 (25), Frontier; 8405-8424(20), Frankford; and Southern, which currently will receive the remaining 35 units  8425-8459 (35).

As of today, July 25th, the R designators for the Regional Rail lines are no more.  Gray decals now cover any reference to the R identifiers in the Center City Stations, replaced by the new line names.  The new schedules, which were put out last week, are the same blue-gray color, with the Trenton/Chestnut Hill East and the Fox Chase/Chestnut Hill West schedules separated.

However, sources say that we may be seeing the colored placards used on the railcars for some time - the new placards aren't ready yet!

5312 is still around, the infomation claiming that this is the bus that caught on fire a few weeks back in chester is false.

Last night around 9:15 PM while on the 117 at 15th and Edgmont in the City of Chester, NABI 5312 suffered an engine fire.  The fire was bad enough that smoke from it set off a fire alarm at a nearby business.  Engine 82 (Chester City Fire Department) put the fire out but it is unknown whether or not the bus will be salvaged.  Given the age of the bus, it probably will not be.  Rust in peaces 5312, a good NABI that spent most of its life at Red Arrow.  

PTV member frankl3217 found 2321 parked at Woodland with an LED sign stating it was not in service!  Will more PCC IIs be retrofitted with LED signs like the Kawasakis?  Stay tuned to find out more!

As mentioned in this post, Now that much of the delivery of the hybrids at Victory are now completed, Frontier has started to receive their allotment of hybrids as well. 8384 was spotted on the 124 earlier today.  It been reported that Frontier is expected to receive 25 hybrids.

On another note, 8370 has been spotted in the northeast at Franklin Mills mall by Joechopchop. It was reported that this bus was running a training run on Comly's behalf. We shall see whether or not Comly will receive any buses from this order.

Overhauls of the first generation Hybrids operating out of Southern (5601H-5612H and 5831H-5850H) has been completed!  The last two buses, 5611H and 5849H, were both spotted overhauled by SouthernSeptaRida215 this afternoon.  With this complete, Berridge can focus its resources on the overhauls of the 2004 New Flyer D40LFs.

8380 has been delivered to Frontier depot.  This is the first of what is believed to be 20-25 DE40LFRs to be assigned to Frontier.  Red Arrow has received their batch (except for 8340) of the new hybrids.  Southern is next in line for the new buses.

According to Darryl Bulls on the boards, more NABIS assigned to Comly, and Callowhill has been scrapped. Their numbers are: #5090, 5092, 5095, 5099, 5102, 5110, 5120, 5141, 5146-5147, 5157 and 5159.

After many months of waiting, #8341 arrived at Germantown. Along with 8342 a week later. The hybrids were arriving at 4 buses per month, now a month later, roughly six/seven buses are arriving on SEPTA's property on an weekly basis. As it stands now, 8371 is the highest SEPTA bus on property. 8371 is currently at Germantown awaiting for plates and acceptance. Earlier today, Rick S, spotted a 836x being delivered to Victory.  As it stands now, the highest hybrid spotted in revenue service is 8364.

According to many reports, Victory is set to receive 40 hybrids (8340-8379). It's unknown at this point who the next depot will be to receive the hybrids. It's been reported that Southern will receive their units in July. It's also been speculated that Frontier and Comly may also receive them as well.

As Ctrabs reported in the forums, NABI #5312 has been reported on the route 92. After many many years of the NABIS being operated on the route 104, Victory is slowly losing NABIS and are now reassigning them to Frontier and other depots. 5311-5313, 5315, along with 5317 has joined their fleet of 13 NABIs, making for a total of 18 NABIs being assigned to Frontier.  Callowhill received 5302 from Red Arrow. 5273 with 5276 have been reassigned to Midvale. It appears that the remaining of the Victory 52xx may also be assigned to Midvale as well.

According to Chuck Green, Victory only has 17 NABIS left.  Among those left are 5277, 5300-5301, 5304, 5306, 5309, 5320, and 5324.

On June 3rd 2010, two trolleys collided while operating on the route 36. The crash occurred at island and Woodland.  #9017 rear-ended #9072. 9072 has suffered some damage in the rear of the unit. One poster on our forums said, "It's easily 2' shorter now.” It is uncertain if anyone was hurt. While this accident occurred, shuttle buses were dispatch to operate on the route 36.

Photos are taken by Trolley Bill of the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys (FPT) group:

According to several posters in the forums, trolley Route 10 will be Bus Shutting throughout the summer months. This is due to the new tracks being replaced on 63rd street. Service between 63rd, Malvern, and 33rd street station will be bus-substituted with buses.

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The winner of June's Photo of the month is Transit Freak photo of three SEPTA Kawasaki cars with the new Luminator LED signs. Congratulations