A "strong burning smell" was reported in the lead railcar at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia about an hour before a SEPTA Regional Rail train with about 325 passengers caught fire at Crum ...

Problems were reported — including a “strong burning smell” — about a SEPTA train the same day it ... The crew lowered the pantograph, which was connected to the overhead power line ...

That dispatcher arranged for a mechanical maintenance team to inspect the train at SEPTA’s Roberts Yard ... The crew lowered the pantograph power supply from the overhead wires and moved ...

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