The Cinnaminson station on the River Line light rail system, is located on Broad Street, offering southbound service to Camden, New Jersey and the Walter Rand Transportation Center ( with transfers available to the PATCO Speedline ) and northbound service to the Trenton Rail Station with connections to New Jersey Transit trains to New York City, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Amtrak trains.

The Delanco station on the River Line light rail system, is located on Rhawn Avenue in offering southbound service to Camden, New Jersey and the Walter Rand Transportation Center ( with transfers available to the PATCO Speedline ) and northbound service to the Trenton Rail Station with connections to New Jersey Transit trains to New York City, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Amtrak trains on the Northeast Corridor.

The Riverton station on the River Line light rail system, is located on Main Street, offering southbound service to Camden, New Jersey and the Walter Rand Transportation Center ( with transfers available to the PATCO Speedline ) and northbound service to the Trenton Rail Station with connections to New Jersey Transit trains to New York City, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Amtrak trains.

Public transportation in Chester is served by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ( SEPTA ), which acquired the former Suburban Philadelphia Transit Authority ( aka " Red Arrow " Lines ) in 1968.

The city is a transit center and the Norristown Transportation Center is the terminus of the Norristown High Speed rail line and a stop on the former Reading Railroad Norristown train to Center City Philadelphia ( both are operated by SEPTA Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ).

SEPTA bus lines provide access to the Norristown Transportation Center, and bus and rail lines connect the borough to other portions of Montgomery County and Philadelphia.

In 1944 the Philadelphia Transportation Company promoted African Americans to positions as motormen and conductors ( from which they had previously been excluded ) on public transportation vehicles.

Examples are the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad, Philadelphia and Western, the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway, and the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company.

* The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's SEPTA Route 100 ( also known as the Norristown High Speed Line ) operates over the old Philadelphia and Western Railroad's Norristown, Pennsylvania line.

Amtrak's Keystone Service provides frequent passenger train service along the Amtrak-owned Keystone Corridor and Northeast Corridor ( NEC ) between the Harrisburg Transportation Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Station in New York via 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

The proposed light rail would require riders to transfer to the Speedline at the Walter Rand Transportation Center for trips to Philadelphia.

Category: Transportation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Two years later, the P & W RR was taken over by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company ( PSTC ), which was more popularly known as the Red Arrow Lines.

The River Line stops at the PATCO Speedline's Broadway Station ( Walter Rand Transportation Center ), allowing passengers to transfer to and from this connection to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Category: Transportation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

* Spirit of Transportation – designed for the Broad Street Station, now located in the 30th Street Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built on the same site.

File: SpiritOfTransportation-by-KarlBitter. jpg | The Spirit of Transportation, 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, PA ( 1894 ).

The Broad Street Line ( BSL ) ( also known as the Broad Street Subway ( BSS ) or Orange Line ) is a rapid transit line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority that runs from Fern Rock Transportation Center in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia.

The most complex of these junctions, near Philadelphia Zoo, handles railway traffic for Amtrak, SEPTA, New Jersey Transit, Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation, and Conrail.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

A Philadelphia distiller is currently breaching the customary prohibition against hard-liquor advertising on TV and radio.

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

This is particularly true in large centers of Jewish population like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

The second agreement permits the authority to sell a 520-acre tract west of Stage 1 Residential to Philadelphia Builders Eastwick Corp., a firm composed of 10 Philadelphia area builders, which is interested in developing part of the project.

`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

* The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown ( now Louisville ) by Pope Pius VII.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

Philadelphia Dental College was founded in 1863 and is the second in the United States.

Drexel University ( DU ) is a private research university with the main campus located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

It now is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

He died at Philadelphia on March 22, 1892, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.