73rd Street station

73rd Street
Elmwood Avenue
SEPTA tram 36 station

Side view of a row of K-Cars at Elmwood Carhouse in 1993.
Location Seventy-third 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)
  SEPTA Trolley Route 36
Connections SEPTA Suburban Buses
Electrified Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Terminus
SEPTA Trolley
toward 13th Street

73rd Street 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 the Elmwood Carhouse.

Elmwood Carhouse

The Elmwood Carhouse 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.

Its official address is at 73rd Street and 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 the Elmwood Carhouse, 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 where you can see the wooden ties. There are a series of unnamed stations on that portion of the line.

Outside the yard, there are connections to SEPTA Suburban Bus Route 108.

References

  1. ↑ Darby Octrolleyfest

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