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11-04-2009 10:50 AM

Paul_D_North_Jr

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SEPTA Commuter Train Catches Fire, 1st Car Burns at Overbrook This Morning

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Well, it was a Silverliner of some kind. No one hurt - it seems that an alert crew and the emergency evacuation windows all worked as they should. Some pretty spectacular photos on the KYW site of the Philly firemen hosing it down - under the catenary, no less ! The MSNBC site has the same report as the Philadelphia Inquirer, but a better photo of the burned-out hulk afterwards.

http://www.kyw1060.com/Septa-Train-Fire-Near-Overbrook-Station-Halts-Serv/5596507

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33618603/ns/us_news

Weird news these days, huh ?

- Paul North.

11-04-2009 4:54 PM

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Phoebe Vet

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Re: SEPTA Commuter Train Catches Fire, 1st Car Burns at Overbrook This Morning

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Not an accusation, but it sure makes me nervous that it happened two days into a transit strike.

11-05-2009 10:01 AM

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oltmannd

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Re: SEPTA Commuter Train Catches Fire, 1st Car Burns at Overbrook This Morning

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It was a Silverliner II or III, not a IV. They were built in the early 1960s, I think, and have never been rebuilt that I'm aware of. They are on their way out once the new Silverliner Vs arrive.