SEPTA LRV 9065 having retriever issues

9065 entering service for route 34 having issues with the retriever at 49th street and Woodland Avenue. After the shoe/carbon left the wire, the operator couldn't get the rope out of the retriever. This is a common intersection for trolleys to de wire

[@leverettrailfan5414]

I volunteer at a Trolley Museum, and every year we have a special 'Training Day' just for volunteers (both active and prospective). I remember on my first training day, a couple volunteers demonstrated what to do in the case of a dewirement, and showed what happens when the car dewires. After the pull was snapped back by the retriever, it was demonstrated how to reset the retriever... Except that it took a little bit of a workout from the museum's seasoned volunteers to get the darn thing to reset! If anyone who's never reset a retriever thinks this is guaranteed easy peasy, you're wrong! I've reset a retriever before, and in order to do it you have to re-wind the spring inside, by pulling slack out of the device. But you're actually winding a decently powerful spring in there. It does, indeed, take a bit of 'muscle', particularly if the retriever isn't 100% perfect. A museum trolley and a trolley in active service on a trolley line lead very different lives, wheras we care for our equipment and keep things in the best shape we can, active cars working for companies like SEPTA are expected to take a beating before they get a service. I'm not surprised the motorman was having trouble getting the retriever to reset, things like that happen!

[@TheEline2733]

Leverettrailfan this is a very common intersection for this to happen. Especially since the frogs get used in both directions on a daily basis.

[@edisoneladiosanchezluarte633]

ESO ES LO QUE SANTIAGO DE CHILE NESECITA PARA COMBATIR EL ESMOG TRANVIAS Y TROLEBUSES

[@blue9multimediagroup]

The way dude just put the pole back up without pulling the rope all the way out, that pole is gonna come off again due to not enough slack in the rope. It's too tight and the retriever locked up. He needed to reset it. Who's man is this?

[@Jesuspaid4oursins]

It always does that.

[@gavinlane7459]

They rarely do this.

[@alden5931]

The Acelas use Pantograph Collection, which is slightly different than the Trolley Pole Collection in the video. Pantographs don't dewire.

[@user-do9cz9wm5z]

ПОЧЕМУ НЕ ПАНТОГРАФ ?😡

[@reamsel]

Damn those "blocks" are ugly as hell!

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Huh?