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Neo Retirement Dates
Topic Started: Feb 26 2009, 07:48 PM (2,898 Views)
Rail_Guy 8202
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What were the dates of the Neo Retirements?
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I remember tha last one retired in June 2008 (possibly the 30th?)
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Septa_kid
Feb 26 2009, 08:39 PM
I remember tha last one retired in June 2008 (possibly the 30th?)
It was the last day of school last year for the SD OF PHILA, the 20th. The remaining of the 35 were all scrapped at midvale that day.
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As for the remaining of the 1984 Neo BMs & 1985 Neo CDs(8601-8697 & 8726-8850) within the City Transit Division, SEPTA may have retired & disposed the remaining units associated within these two groups at the end of the school year in 2002. I beleive that around June 14 or June 21, 2002, the remnants were retired & disposed of. By 2002, ALL of the Neo BM & CD suburbans were retired & gone.

I spotted 8705 & 8852(assigned to Southern) on the C, Cheltenham division, on Monday December 24, 2001 @ evening rush hour. They may have been the very last two of the Neo BM & CD suburbans to ever operate.

Southern had 8855 & 8856. Midvale had 8853 & 8854. Midvale let 8853 & 8854 go to the dogs.

In their heydays, when the 8800 surburbans were assigned to Frontier(8851-8860, 8865-8875), many of these buses could & would top 70 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, perhaps outdoing the Neo EZ suburbans at that time.
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CACrafter88bk2504
Feb 26 2009, 09:48 PM
As for the remaining of the 1984 Neo BMs & 1985 Neo CDs(8601-8697 & 8726-8850) within the City Transit Division, SEPTA may have retired & disposed the remaining units associated within these two groups at the end of the school year in 2002. I beleive that around June 14 or June 21, 2002, the remnants were retired & disposed of. By 2002, ALL of the Neo BM & CD suburbans were retired & gone.

I spotted 8705 & 8852(assigned to Southern) on the C, Cheltenham division, on Monday December 24, 2001 @ evening rush hour. They may have been the very last two of the Neo BM & CD suburbans to ever operate.

Southern had 8855 & 8856. Midvale had 8853 & 8854. Midvale let 8853 & 8854 go to the dogs.

In their heydays, when the 8800 surburbans were assigned to Frontier(8851-8860, 8865-8875), many of these buses could & would top 70 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, perhaps outdoing the Neo EZ suburbans at that time.
Not trying to rain on your parade, but I've vaguely remember any Neoplans going over 56 MPH on the expressways. There were however a few exceptional units which did went over 60 MPH, but generally they were govern to 55 MPH.
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Did most of them go out in 2000-2008?
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Yes, the majority of the Neoplans were replaced by the New Flyers, although essentially every heavy duty bus order after the EZs were delivered (including the NABIs!) replaced Neoplans.
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Mar 5 2009, 06:25 PM
Yes, the majority of the Neoplans were replaced by the New Flyers, although essentially every heavy duty bus order after the EZs were delivered (including the NABIs!) replaced Neoplans.
I remember that!!! Those POSes took out the AK and part of the BD Series, and the Legendary BeetleBombs.
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The last one I rode was 3437.

They were all scrapped shortly after that.

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Was there a difference between the transit and suberban Neos?
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