The IEEE VTS Philadelphia Chapter recently held a meeting with 63 people in attendance! Thank you all for your participation. Our chapter would like to thank Mark Curry and Tony Janin from Secheron for an engaging presentation on advanced design concepts for dc traction power systems. If you missed the presentation, it is located in pdf format on this website. The presentation provided novel ways to boost dc system voltage by means of IGBT inverters connected in parallel to new or existing rectifiers.