Elmwood Carhouse (SEPTA station)

Elmwood Carhouse
SEPTA tram 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)	Subway–Surface Trolleys Route 36
Connections	SEPTA Suburban Buses
Electrified	Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Eastwick Loop Terminus Subway–Surface Trolleys Route 36 40th Street toward 13th Street

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.

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  Another row of K-Cars in 2015.

References

External links

• Elmwood Depot Track map (Philadelphia Trolley.org)
• Elmwood Carhouse (KTransit.com)
• Station from Google Maps Street View