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  Topic: Millennium Transit Might Have A Horse Shoe
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PostForum: Transit Bus Manufacturers   Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:44 am   Subject: Re: What next?


Case in point: NovaBus. Two years ago i put them on death watch; if anything they seemed poised to remain a small fish delivering only to Canada.

What happened? They now have an articulated, an ...
  Topic: I've never seen an MCI Classic Artic
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PostForum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:29 am   Subject: I've never seen an MCI Classic Artic
Here's a little more information and a better photo.
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Photo credit; GM Photographic.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY


C'mon. Really? I know it's a GM photo, but that's obv ...
  Topic: 30-foot New Flyer LF buses - why only one door?
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PostForum: Transit Bus Manufacturers   Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:27 am   Subject: 30-foot New Flyer LF buses - why only one door?
I've never seen a 30' Gillig LF with twin doors. I've seen 30' Phantoms with dual doors, but never a LF.

I think a lot of it has to do with the T-drive configuration, too. For the Nova RTS', it w ...
  Topic: Pueblo Transit Millennium RTS R80THNs
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PostForum: Photographs, Bus Logs and Route Suggestion Ideas   Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:59 pm   Subject: Pueblo Transit Millennium RTS R80THNs
Nice shots, Evan; thanks for sharing!
I've been an MBS member for years, and I hate to admit it, but I still have not yet attended an MBS convention Shocked
Question: on the shot of the operator's ...
  Topic: Pueblo Transit Millennium RTS R80THNs
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Replies: 4
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PostForum: Photographs, Bus Logs and Route Suggestion Ideas   Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:51 am   Subject: Pueblo Transit Millennium RTS R80THNs
Went to Pueblo as part of the MBS Denver convention, but I also made a trip down there on my own before the group did. As a result, I'm able to bring a few detail shots that the others may not have. ...
  Topic: New Flyer Performs D40i Invero Engineering Changes in MI
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PostForum: Transit Bus Manufacturers   Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:58 pm   Subject: New Flyer Performs D40i Invero Engineering Changes in MI
I found this out behind the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute in Ann Arbor, Mich. From what I'm told, it's here while UMTRI, OC Transpo (Ottawa) and New Flyer work on improvi ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:09 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
Thanks Evan for the info. There's two websites in Canada that have several photos of the "Victoria".

There's also a huge difference between knowing a website that has images and knowing t ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:21 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
Evan, just got my copy of your new book today. It's very informative and has a lot of great photos. I was wondering why you didn't make mention, or include the "Victoria" RTS model that has ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:22 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
How about doing one on Old Looks next?! Laughing

Heh heh heh...

You're not the only one who wants such a book - and you're not the only one who's suggested that to me.

But as a 22-year old, it ...
  Topic: Millennium Transit
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PostForum: Transit Bus Manufacturers   Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:59 am   Subject: Millennium Transit
Somebody posted on another website Thursday, that MTS has a contract with some bus operator in Honduras for 60 to 90 RTS buses, with an option for up to 300. Also, that 23 of their buses(2006 models) ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:27 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
I'm hearing that a handful of people are getting their Amazonian copies already. Good to hear, and hope you enjoy!

As for slant backs - I've got RTX, 01s and 03s in their slanted form (or as I see ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:26 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
They *just* arrived!

Outside of a few small errors (some not my fault), it looks pretty good!
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:31 am   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
OK, here's the (somewhat) skinny from my editor...

"Amazon got all our dates wrong, our book trade partner says they are trying to fix it. I think what happened is someone thought to start put ...
  Topic: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
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Views: 59777

PostForum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:04 pm   Subject: RTS Book for Pre-order on Amazon!
Have a call into my publisher to see what's up.

I better have at least a few copies before the MBS convention in Denver...
  Topic: 'Bus Nostalgia'
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PostForum: Transit Bus Manufacturers   Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:37 am   Subject: 'Bus Nostalgia'
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I will admit that some of the dates regarding the end of RTS production and the purchase of the Nova equipment are sketchy but the facts are accurate and the time frames approximate (or as ...
 
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