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Topic Started: Dec 14 2005, 08:58 AM (40,288 Views)
The Bikeyorph
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They're chopping up the two once-sealed stairways on the southbound platform at North Philly. There isn't much of them left...there's also an orange barricade running along the platform.
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TransitChuckG
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Rode 5863 on the 104 today.

Rode a cold 1104 on the EL.

Rode back in a freshly washed Allison (did not get the number).

A Frankford operator said don't hold your breath waiting for the new Trackless Coaches. Like maybe 2008?? A retired operator of SEPTA told me that model is having power steering problems in Vancouver. So that will hold up our SEPTA order, I guess.

Chuck Greene
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joechopchop
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3443 on the 88 this morning.
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TransitChuckG
Feb 18 2007, 09:05 PM
A Frankford operator said don't hold your breath waiting for the new Trackless Coaches. Like maybe 2008?? A retired operator of SEPTA told me that model is having power steering problems in Vancouver. So that will hold up our SEPTA order, I guess.

Chuck Greene

Thats bad? The neoplan's get to stay longer! :D
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TransitChuckG
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<Thats bad? The neoplan's get to stay longer!>

I like that, too. I love the musical sound they make in first & second gear.

My fear is that our Neo's will eventually bite the dust, though.

Chuck Greene
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newflyer_8008
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I hear the neoplan an440 buses or i think rather these buses will be retired at about 19 years of age. hopefully the pilot coach will be here next month...

6000 series numbers
7700 series numbers
9900 series numbers

Which to choose, which to choose
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newflyer_8008
Feb 21 2007, 04:58 PM
6000 series numbers
7700 series numbers
9900 series numbers

Which to choose, which to choose

I was thinking maybe one of the following:

1800 series
2500 series
7900 series
9200 series.
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newflyer_8008
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Not bad joe chopchop, but does anyone think that they will use 3 digit numbers again? How was it 800 to 909 if the budd cars were at these numbers?


Also some pretty cool numbers as well...

920-up
1300
4300
6700
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Van2006ko
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Myself personally, I think they will use 3 digit numbers again as that is exactly what SEPTA is doing with its upcoming Silverliner V order.
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As for the Frankford tracklesses, gone are the day when you could wait @ Castor & Longshore Avenues(Solly @ Frankford, or 3rd & Wyoming), waiting for an AMG trackless(like 854 or 871) on an inbound run on the 59 (66 or 75)only to have it substituted by a 1983 Neo BD transit(like 8476). Now that would have been a bustitution I would have taken to the chin, knowing it was temporary, and knowing that I was getting reimbursed with a long but not forgotten trademark Neoplan bus for the absence of a trolley coach.
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