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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 26 2009, 07:48 PM (2,896 Views) | |
| Rail_Guy 8202 | Feb 26 2009, 07:48 PM Post #1 |
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What were the dates of the Neo Retirements? |
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| Septa_kid | Feb 26 2009, 08:39 PM Post #2 |
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I remember tha last one retired in June 2008 (possibly the 30th?) |
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| TRANSIT_FREAK | Feb 26 2009, 09:04 PM Post #3 |
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to Life, Love & LOOT
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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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| CACrafter88bk2504 | Feb 26 2009, 09:48 PM Post #4 |
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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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| Van2006ko | Feb 26 2009, 11:05 PM Post #5 |
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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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| Rail_Guy 8202 | Mar 5 2009, 04:32 PM Post #6 |
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Did most of them go out in 2000-2008? |
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| Tritransit Area | Mar 5 2009, 06:25 PM Post #7 |
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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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| redarrow5591 | Mar 5 2009, 07:45 PM Post #8 |
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Light Rail and Railroad Historian
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I remember that!!! Those POSes took out the AK and part of the BD Series, and the Legendary BeetleBombs. |
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| TransitChuckG | Mar 9 2009, 03:03 PM Post #9 |
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The last one I rode was 3437. They were all scrapped shortly after that. Chuck |
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| Rail_Guy 8202 | Mar 9 2009, 03:16 PM Post #10 |
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Was there a difference between the transit and suberban Neos? |
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