SEPTA Holds 4th Annual Decorated Vehicle Competition
by Mike DeNardo
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Decorating buses and trolleys for the holidays has become an annual competition at SEPTA.
If SEPTA had fancy brigades, they'd look like this.
Buses and trolleys outfitted in elaborate themes -- think Star Wars or the Polar Express -- in the transit agency's fourth annual decorated vehicle competition.
Operator Dave Musgrove won the trolley division.
"We don't do it for the competition. We just do it for the joy, the fun of it," he said.
Deatrice Marshall's Route 84 bus had a fireplace inside, with reindeer and a sleigh outside, for her theme.
"'Twas the night before Christmas. Not a creature was stirring. Not even a mouse. So we have our little mouse over here!" she said.
Don't worry. It was a stuffed mouse!
Dee took second place, along with fellow driver John Looby.
"It's probably one of the few times that passengers don't mess up a bus. When they see it looking like this, they try to keep it looking nice," she said.
The decorated SEPTA buses will be on public display this Saturday afternoon at Dilworth Park.
