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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 25 August 2016 - 03:57 PM

From the people who brought you the New York Penn Station departure board replacement comes the Philadelphia 30th Street Station departure board replacement.  From Philadelphia, PA Inquirer, 8/25/16:


Amtrak to replace flipping departure board at 30th Street Station

 

Amtrak will soon replace the traditional split-flap display at 30th Street Station that lists tracks and times for trains arriving in and departing from Philadelphia.

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Posted 28 August 2016 - 09:09 PM

Billy Penn blog, 8/25:
 

Amtrak, PA Railroad Museum in talks to save iconic 30th Street Station sign

 

The iconic 30th Street Station departures board could be saved.

 

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA is in “initial conversations” with Amtrak regarding acquiring the board that’s set to be taken down, according to Howard Pollman, a spokesman with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

 

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Philadelphia is one of the only cities on the East Coast that still uses a flipping departures board, and it could be the last.  .  .  .

 

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Posted 08 September 2016 - 06:28 AM

Philebrity.com:

 

It Turns Out, That 30th Street Station Flip Board Isn't An Obsolete Technology At All

September 7, 2016

 

We know you know this but it always bears repeating: Nothing in Philadelphia is clean. Not even what ought to be routine matters of hard fact. Not even that wistful little story cycle about 30th Street Station's departures flipboard, itself soon to depart. Philebrity friend and correspondent Michael McGettigan, still unsatisfied with the why of the whole thing, took it upon himself yesterday to ring up the company that makes and maintains such signs and found out the following, which he duly forwarded to to both us and the Philadelphia Preservation Alliance last night:

 

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Posted 30 November 2018 - 05:53 PM

Delaware Online, 11/29/18:

 


The iconic departures board at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia is coming down

 

 

 

More than two years after news broke that Amtrak would replace the iconic departures board at 30th Street Station, the move looks like it’s finally about to happen.

 

 

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Posted 01 December 2018 - 10:57 AM

Lancaster Online, 11/30/18:

 


 

 

Strasburg museum may house famous Philadelphia Amtrak board  

 

 

 

The iconic, ever-moving status board at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia is getting closer to its final split-flap, and it may be heading to Lancaster County.

 

 

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Posted 01 December 2018 - 04:10 PM

Amtrak news release:

November 30, 2018

 

  Amtrak to Install New, State-of-the-Art Digital Board at William H. Gray III 30th Street Station as Part of Station Modern Makeover  

 

Will replace the current Solari Board in early 2019

 

 

PHILADELPHIA – Amtrak is set to replace its current Solari board at William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in Philadelphia (PHL) with a new, digital Passenger Information Display System (PIDS) that will help further its efforts to modernize the station. As part of the project, Amtrak is also replacing the display boards at each gate, the software that runs the displays, as well as the public address system and the platform displays all of which will now be ADA compliant.

 

“The new, digital and state-of-the-art PIDS board that will take its place allows us to have a more modern and tech-friendly station with an ADA compliant display board,” said Amtrak VP of Passenger Accessibility David Handera.

 

The project will start in December by upgrading the boards at each gate, with the removal of the current Solari board taking place in January. The new PIDS board, which will display gate and track information and have ADA features, is expected to come online at the end of the month. Once the new PIDS board is in place and operational, Amtrak will then finish its work by upgrading the rest of its display boards in ClubAcela Lounge, the food court, on the platforms and in other areas of the station.

 

The upgrade of the PIDS board at PHL comes on the heels of Amtrak already replacing PIDS across its national network in an effort to modernize its stations, meet the ADA guidelines and improve the customer experience. Amtrak is also in the midst of a larger, station refresh initiative at PHL, which includes upgrading the Amtrak ClubAcela Lounge, a recently installed a lactation suite to provide mothers with a clean, dignified and private space to pump and nurse at 30th Street Station, and the retrofitting of eight of the moveable wooden waiting benches on with power outlets for portable and mobile devices.

 

Amtrak operates approximately 120 daily trains in the state of Pennsylvania, with more than 4.4 million riders traveling in and out of PHL during its 2018 Fiscal Year, making it the third busiest station in the national Amtrak system.

 



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Posted 10 December 2018 - 07:54 PM

PlanPhilly, 12/7/18:

Drexel grads pitch Amtrak on new sign: Vintage-style romance with efficiency of new technology

 

 

As Philadelphia mourns the pending loss of Amtrak’s beloved clackety departure board at 30th Street Station, one local business has stepped into the fray with a bold proposition.

 

“We would love to build a new board for Amtrak,” said Mark Kuhn, CEO and co-founder at Oat Foundry, a five-year-old engineering design firm founded by a group of Drexel University grads.  “We’ve sent a couple notes out to the Amtrak folks and we’ll see what happens.”

 

Oat Foundry is the only company in the U.S. that continuously designs and manufactures the old-school split-flap displays.

 

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  • A split-flap board made by Oat Foundry. 

 

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Posted 11 December 2018 - 07:41 PM

KYW Radio, Philadelphia, PA, 12/11/18:

 


 

Amtrak's split-flap schedule board may not depart 30th Street Station after all 

 

 

Amtrak's classic split-flap board at 30th Street Station may not be destined for the scrap heap just yet. 

 

 

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Posted 25 January 2019 - 01:53 AM

Billy Penn, 1/24/19:

 


 

Amtrak is dismantling 30th Street Station’s iconic flipping board right now

 

 

Time has run out for the iconic split-flap departures board at 30th Street Station.

 

Photos and videos posted to social media Thursday night showed workers in orange vests and hard-hats methodically dismantling the signboard — while it was still running.

 

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Posted 27 January 2019 - 07:53 PM

KYW-TV Philadelphia, PA  1/26/19:
 

End Of An Era: 30th Street Station’s Beloved Flipping Board Has Been Removed

 

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The iconic 30th Street Station flipping board is gone. It displayed one final message as workers removed it from its perch Saturday night: “Farewell Philadelphia.”

 

Workers officially removed the historic “clickity-clack” sign from the Amtrak station Saturday night.

 

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