73rd Street station

73rd and Elmwood
Side view of a row of K-Cars at Elmwood Depot in 1993.
Location 73rd Street & Elmwood Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°54′53″N 75°14′36″W / 39.914633°N 75.243275°W / 39.914633; -75.243275Coordinates: 39°54′53″N 75°14′36″W / 39.914633°N 75.243275°W / 39.914633; -75.243275
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s)
  Route 36
Electrified Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Route 36 Trolley
(Elmwood)

73rd Street station is a SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley Lines station serving SEPTA Route 36. The station also serves as an alternate terminus for the line as it is also the location of a storage facility called Elmwood Depot.

Elmwood Carhouse

Elmwood Depot also known as Elmwood Loop and Elmwood Avenue Loop, is a storage facility and alternate terminus for the SEPTA Route 36 Subway-Surface Trolley Line, in the Elmwood Park section of Southwest Philadelphia. Besides cars from Route 36, the facility is used to store and maintain cars from SEPTA Routes 11, 13, and 34. Up until September 5, 2005, SEPTA Route 10 was housed here from since 1992.

Its official address is at 7311 w Elmwood Avenue, but the yard stretches southwest to Island Road and north to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line. Trolleys run from here to Eastwick Loop or to Center City Philadelphia. It is also used by railfans during the annual "OcTrolleyfest" sponsored by the Darby Borough Historic Commission.[1]

A decorative arch bridge carries the NEC/Wilmington/Newark Line right-of-way over Island Road and the trolley tracks between Routes 11 and 36. Between the Eastwick Loop and Elmwood Depot, the trolleys have their own right-of-way for a short period in the middle of Island Road where the tracks are not on a paved street and the wooden ties are visible.

Outside the yard, there are connections to SEPTA City & Suburban Bus Route 108, http://www.septa.org/schedules/bus/pdf/68.pdf Route 68.

References

  1. ↑ Darby Octrolleyfest


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