SEPTA bus and aerial bucket lift collide; “no major injuries”
“No major injuries” reported when part of an aerial bucket lift and a SEPTA passenger bus collide on Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
Category: machines
Wire train removes old catenary wire above train tracks
This video depicts SEPTA’s flotilla-like “wire train” renewing the catenary wire above the tracks on the R7 Chestnut Hill East line as it works its way past the Mount Airy train station.
First Christmas Trees 🎄 🎄 🎄 of season arrive!
Charlie Gangloff of Top of the Hill market and a helper hoist the first Christmas tree of the season onto an upright the Monday before [Read More…]
New tire laser reading at auto dealer
I finally got around to having my car's defective Takata airbag replaced and driving into the dealership, discovered that the service area had been [Read More…]
Huge machine lays asphalt street
A large crew works with a pneumatic paver laying down a new asphalt street surface in Northwest Philadelphia
Washer salesman uses high tech
At the Best Buy electronics store in Plymouth Meeting, PA, salesman Bill Kuhn employs a new, huge touch screen to show off the features of [Read More…]
3d Printer for Public Middle Schoolers
A generous school parent purchased a 3D printer for James Hilburt's math classes at the J. S. Jenks Middle School in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood [Read More…]
Static electricity shuts down voting machine
At a polling place on election day in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, voting machine technician Tony Pirrone explains how static electricity can short the voting machine [Read More…]