Mainline Media News, 7/28/15:
History train tours through West Chester
There hasn’t been a commuter rail service to West Chester since SEPTA last ran a train in 1986, but that doesn’t mean residents can’t take an historic journey down the tracks.
Back by popular demand, the West Chester Railroad hosts a history train where people can ride on coaches built in the early 1930s for the Reading Railroad.
Article is here.
They don't mention it, but there used to be a few specials that ran through over the still active SEPTA portion into Philadelphia 30th Street Station. I am not sure if they are still physically able to do this. The gap between the Glen Mills endpoint of the tourist train and SEPTA's revenue service at Elwyn is just 5 miles --- and that gap will get smaller when SEPTA re-extends as far as Wawa.