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Elmwood Carhouse
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SEPTA LRVs at the maintenance facility, 1993.jpg
Side view of a row of Kawasaki LRVs awaiting assignment at Elmwood Carhouse in 1993.
Location73rd Street & Elmwood Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°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 bySEPTA
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: 68
Suburban Bus SEPTA Suburban Bus: 108
ElectrifiedOverhead lines
Services
Preceding station SEPTA.svg SEPTA Following station
80th Street–Eastwick
Terminus
 Route 36
major stops
 40th Street Portal
toward 13th Street

Elmwood Carhouse is a SEPTA Subway–Surface Trolley carbarn that was constructed in 1981 to houses the current LRVs that run on Subway-Surface Routes 11, 13, 34 & 36. Route 10 was also housed here from September 1992 until September of 2005, with return of Surface Streetcar Trolley Route 15 back to streetcar operations, Route 10 was returned back to Callowhill Carhouse.

The Elmwood Carhouse replaced the vintage Woodland Carhouse which was located at 49th & Woodland. On October 23, 1975 part of their carbarn suffered a devastating fire in which several trolleys were destroyed. The official date was November 15, 1981.

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 Bus Route 68 and SEPTA Suburban Bus Route 108.

  • Another row of K-Cars in 2015.

References[]

  1. ^ Darby Octrolleyfest

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