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Todd's Railfan Guide to
the PATCO High Speed Line
aka: The Lindenwold High Speed Line, or PATCO
Port Authority Transit Corporation
Heavy Rail System between
Philadelphia PA and Lindenwold NJ
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Here's one if you want to do a station by station Pub Crawl :-)
15-16th St - Philadelphia 12-13th St - Philadelphia
GPS Coordinates: 39.947939, -75.162381
9-10th St - Philadelphia
GPS Coordinates: 39.947365, -75.157634 8th & Market - Philadelphia
GPS Coordinates: 39.951149, -75.153573 Broadway - Camden NJ - the Walter Rand Transportation Center Disclaimers: I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an
expert. Please Note:
Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides
are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. For those
of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my
indexa page has a list of
almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to
help you detail your pike. If this is a railfan page, every effort has
been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this
railfan guide is correct. Once in a while, an error may creep in.
My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a
thousand words, especially for railfanning. Text descriptions only
get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented. Take
along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still
better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get
local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts
out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their
state maps do not have the railroads on them. If you can find em,
I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and
concise graphics, and they do a really good job of showing you where
tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads.
Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known. Beware: If used as a source, ANYTHING from Wikipedia must be treated as
being possibly being inaccurate, wrong, or not true.
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GPS Coordinates: 39.948637, -75.167804
The 8th
Street station serves both SEPTA and PATCO. SEPTA owns the station,
PATCO leases their "space". PATCO is on the lower level and runs
north-south. SEPTA is on the upper level and runs east-west, this is
the Market-Frankford El (even though it is underground here). More
info here
My best
friend and I rode part of the PATCO line in August 2014 as part of a trip from
Wilmington DE to NYC and back via all transit. We boarded PATCO at the
8th & Market station, and got off at the Broadway station in Camden to
transfer to the River Line light rail. At the time, PATCO was doing an
extensive track replacement project on the Ben Franklin bridge and had one
side of the bridge shut down. During the track repair PATCO had
special timetables in effect.
Over the Ben Franklin Bridge
The six following pictures are from M Libby... Thanks!
City Hall - Camden NJ
GPS Coordinates: 39.945704, -75.121142
GPS Coordinates: 39.943110, -75.119707
Ferry Ave
GPS Coordinates: 39.922863, -75.092038
Collingswood
GPS Coordinates: 39.913599, -75.064545
Westmont
GPS Coordinates: 39.907805, -75.046533
The NJT commuter line joins/splits off from the PATCO line just south of the station.
Mt Vernon Overpass
GPS Coordinates: 39.901634, -75.039473
Haddonfield
GPS Coordinates: 39.897611, -75.037197
Woodcrest
GPS Coordinates: 39.870145, -75.011257
The Woodcrest station has four tracks, one for the NJT Atlantic City trains, and three for the PATCO trains.
The PATCO line is a 2-track line, but there are three tracks going through the Woodcrest station.
Ashland
GPS Coordinates: 39.858720, -75.009208
Lindenwold
GPS Coordinates: 39.834013, -75.000758
Lindenwold is the last stop on the south end of the line. "On the other side" of Lindenwold are the shops - these are the tracks that continue "southward". There is a
flyover for PATCO to cross the NJT line.
The New Jersey Transit Atlantic City line also has a stop here, and you can transfer (paid) to that line.
The Shops
PATCO uses standard metro style red and lunar/white signals instead of the more traditional green/yellow/red type.
at 8th & Market
By the way, floobydust is
a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data
book, and means miscellaneous and/or other stuff.
Pictures and additional information is always needed if anyone feels
inclined to take 'em, send 'em, and share 'em, or if you have
something to add or correct.... credit is always given! BE NICE!!! Contact info
is here
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