The Federal Railroad Administration has granted a two-week extension to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for completion of its FRA-mandated inspections of the 223-car Silverliner ...

The inspections follow an urgent safety warning from the National Transportation Safety Board citing an "immediate and unacceptable safety risk" involving the 50-year-old railcars.

SEPTA is tasked with doing an intensive, invasive inspection of every single component on its troubled Silverliner IV fleet. "Every electrical connection, every lug, every contact tip, every circuit ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Oct. 1 released a report that “urged the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to act immediately to eliminate fire risks in its fleet ...

Less than half of SEPTA’s 50-year-old fleet of Silverliner cars have been inspected. And out of 108 inspected cars, only 35 have returned to service. SEPTA Regional Rail trains come and go from 30th ...

SEPTA officials spent part of Thursday at City Hall in Philadelphia, facing questions from council members over its federal mandate to inspect more than 200 Silverliner IV railcars that were ...

SEPTA now has until November 14 to finish inspecting its Silverliner IV fleet, the transit agency announced Friday afternoon.