stanhas87
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Sept 6, 2007 6:48:45 GMT 1
Post by stanhas87 on Sept 6, 2007 6:48:45 GMT 1
Dear Jerry:
I try to keep up with Metro developments, because, I been around them since 1979, when they were the SCRTD and went places such as San Bernardino. You are quite welcome; more input as I 'dig' it.
Subways are at the same fare level as buses; perhaps you been thinking of Metrolink? I like to ride the latter and Orange Line and think that was a very good ideia and this town needed something such as this system. Foothill Transit, which serves East Los Angeles, has the Silver Streak; similar to the Orange Line; runs at the Busway which ends at El Monte and goes all the way to Montclair whit very few exits of the 60 freeway and the Artic Buses which serve this route have names, as the steam Locos had.
Best Regards,
Nick K
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stanhas87
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Sept 18, 2007 17:30:36 GMT 1
Post by stanhas87 on Sept 18, 2007 17:30:36 GMT 1
Dear All:
Yesterday morning, as I left the apartment, I saw LACMTA's new NABI artic 65 footer bus. As I had to go at the Orange Line's termina; in North Hollywood, I attempted to check if there were more of these in there. Nope. So I take that there is only one of them and it is on trial.
In the mid-1990's LACMTA also had a bus prototype developed called the 'Stealth Bus'. I never saw the real thing, misplaced the photo I had of it and still do not know what ever happened to it. Basically, this 65 footer also falls in the same category; I hope is sucessful. Its photo been added to my files.
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stanhas87
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Aug 6, 2008 21:27:30 GMT 1
Post by stanhas87 on Aug 6, 2008 21:27:30 GMT 1
Dear All:
It was interesting to hear the news from the Brazilian Bus site Toffobus.
LACMTA, also known as METRO (called as such on the brazilian site) has acquired 260 NABI 45C-LFW buses (45 feet long, Composite Units) to be delivered between 2008 and 2010. The Authority had a few of these buses already, all painted on Rapid Liveries.
LACMTA buses are painted on Orange, for the Local Lines; red for the Rapid (Limited Stops) ones, and blue for Express (very few stops and seems that these are not being sucessful) Routes. The already bought 45 footers wear the 8000 fleet number; the photo from the mentioned site does not show clearly in which fleet number the new purchases will be (the bus from their photo seems to wear a 0000 fleet number; that picture may be intended for promo use only; I have an older photo from 1980 which shows an RTS with slanted back which was never used by the former SCRTD).
The Authority already uses the 40 LFW units (7000 fleet numbers) 60 BTR Articulated (9000 fleet number), the 45 footer mentioned above and a 65 footer testing prototype (only one, wearing a 9400 fleet number which is shared with the NABI 60 BTR's) for the Orange Line (gray painted, with Orange lettering indicating the use of this vehicle).
CAIO (Companhia Americana Industrial de Onibus) is a major Brazilian Bus bodymaker and now introduced is North American Operations. Their Highway model, the Giro, is equipped with Freightliner Chassis. If I am correct, Marcopolo was the first Brazilian Bus Manufacturer to operate in the USA, using Mexican DINA bodies (and is called the Viaggio). In the state of Florida, Argentinian Cametal Coaches do operate in there.
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stanhas87
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Dec 7, 2010 3:43:55 GMT 1
Post by stanhas87 on Dec 7, 2010 3:43:55 GMT 1
Dear All: In some of my posts, I been refering to the Flxible New Look from the former SCRTD of Los Angeles, and mainly the ones which had the 7100 fleet numbers (now taken by NABI). They had the Cummins 903 Diesel Engine and they could be heard from two or three blocks away. They are my favorite Transit Buses (the Flexble with the Cummins engines) and the 7100 series were the only ones so equipped besides the Flxibles which had the 5600 fleet number, but these were one-door Suburban Type Buses. They were retired around 1984 and they were 1971 Model Year. I knew from a while that one of them was preserved in Northern California (fleet number 7103) but that was it about this issue. This weekend, I did a visit to Utube, and found this video of the 7103 running around. When they were running on the streets of Los Angeles, I would go to the back of the Vehicle to hear this engine, which I quite liked; with this video, is that pleasure of hearing it again after a nearly gap of 30 years. I have to go and visit it, really. Video below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77fbvdx7rOA Is a short video, but gives a good ideia how that engine worked. The interior of the Vehicle looks great, too.
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