Maryland trains now rolling on SEPTA tracks to help reduce overcrowding

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Ten trains from the Maryland Area Regional Commuter system, or MARC, are now in SEPTA’s service as part of a lease deal funded by additional state capital funds the transit agency got in November.

“SEPTA received the MARC cars in early December,” said SEPTA’s Andrew Busch. “What we’ve had to do since then is get crews and also our train crews, so that would be the engineers and the conductors along with our mechanical staff trained up.”…

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