I rode the express on this line for 8 years (2000 - 2008), when it was the R5. It skipped a lot of these “milk” stops

Doylestown line stations:
Glenside 21:21
North Hill 24:46
Oreland 28:45
Fort Washington 31:46
Ambler 32:51
Penllyn 36:17
Gwynedd valley 38:36
North Wales 42:44
Pennbrook 45:51
Landsdale 48:42
9th Street Landsdale 54:17
Fortuna 56:07
Colmar 58:05
Link Belt 1:00:10
Chalfont 1:04:16
New Britain 1:07:27
Delaware Valley University 1:09:28
Doylestown 1:13:37🛑

Thank you for all that you do in aiding us to become Great Conductors and Engineers.

Funny thing: I've been in Ft. Washington, No. Wales and Lansdale a thousand times, and I hardly recognized any landmarks from the train. I enjoyed the ride though.

On those GRS "tri-light" signals, this is the first time I've seen green on the left and yellow on the right.

Thank you for a classic "head-end" train ride.  Your "locale" commentary made the trip that much more interesting. Excellent!

17:12 the Tacony creek on the right. 48:23 The Stony Creek line runs to Norristown

At 30:06 that's the Pennsylvania Turnpike the train passes under.  This train runs faster than they did on the Media/Elwyn line.  I think the Reading spaced their starions further apart than the PRR.

at 7:36, the concrete on the ground, slab, was once Nicetown Station stop which was discontinued. It served for passengers that worked at the old Budd Plant

Your are soooo  awesome.  I'm downloading these vids so that I can watch them in total length once my life becomes less of a financial hurdle.  I will get more cab view time when I become more solvent.   Until then,  you are one of my heroes !!   Aarre Peltomaa😉

Nice. Beautiful scenery. Narrations and all.

I have ridden this line many times to /from Oreland where my parents resided after a move from Philly.  It was Reading Railroad then.  Thanks Retired Rail fan for the memories.

I remember in the late 80’s when I learned about some of the rolling stock in Chicago (Cta)the St. Louis 6000’s were actually bought by Septa for routes like Norristown until they received their  own new cars in the early 90’s. While some of the PCC’s retained their original color schemes most often of them were of course repainted and re numbered as the 400’s. At the same time that the Cta were also still ordering new cars of their own the Budd 2600’s some of the 6000’s were sold to Philly while most of the others were either retired and scrapped while others were sent to the railway museums.

I really enjoyed your video! In my earlier years, I was a Norristown train rider (Wissahickon to Center City). But as I now live in the greater Lansdale area, its great to see the Philly - Doylestown journey.

Thanks for the rail ride

at about 14:11 was Tabor Junction in which Freight Trains would go down the " Richmond Branch. Many Iron ore drags would come from and go to Port Richmond

Excellent videography and narration.

Retired Railfan, I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the commentary......makes me wish there was such a thing as time travel so I could go back in time to when the Reading Railroad was running trains out of Philly so I could travel on them on the various routes.

Thanks for posting and the good narration.
I am old enough to have been able to ride all of the Reading Lines to Bethlehem, Newtown, Pottsville and Newark, NJ.
The most scenic of them all was Newtown.
I was fortunate enough to be able to ride up there when they were coach trains pulled
by EMD GP-7s.
As you pointed out, Doylestown is a nice ride.

Nice smooth ride