Trains This Day/Month in the Past

[Charlie B]

Charlie,

I love this.
Pictures of Philadelphia!
From the vehicles, I'd guess the photo is earlier than your 2014 copyright date.
Is that a bicentennial scheme?  Looks like it might be, with a bit of color shift in the film/negative.
City Line -- is that West Philly?

Again, love it!
Thanks for sharing.
--Hillyard

The color scheme is called "Gulf Oil". Gulf Oil's truck were orange and blue at that time.

The letter board says "Ogontz" on the bottom line. That would make the trolley line the Route 23. The line ran from South Philly through North Philly, Germantown, Mt Airy, and Chestnut Hill. At the time it was the longest trolley line in the world.

I tried to find the location on Google Earth but there must be a lot of changes on those streets. I can't remember what route we were on but we might have been going into the Penn Central Plaza to Conrails Blue Room, or if we were leaving I believe the next stop was York. 
Charlie