T (SEPTA Metro)

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The T, formerly known as the Subway–Surface Trolleys, is a light rail system of the SEPTA Metro serving Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The system comprises five branches that operate on street-level tracks in West Philadelphia and Delaware County, and also underneath Market Street in Philadelphia's Center City. The branches— the T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5—collectively operate on about 39.6 miles (63.7 km) of route. Like Boston's Green Line and San Francisco's Muni Metro, the T is the descendant of a pre-World War II streetcar system. It also shares many similarities with the premetro and stadtbahn systems of continental Europe. Where Boston and San Francisco's systems use longer, articulated LRVs, Philadelphia uses rigid LRVs roughly 4 feet (1.2 m) longer than the PCC streetcars they replaced. The lines use Kawasaki Type K LRVs delivered in 1981–82. The cars are similar to those on the D 100 series, SEPTA's suburban trolley routes, which were delivered around the same time...

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