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'CHATTANOOGA # 954'

 
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:12 pm    Post subject: 'CHATTANOOGA # 954' Reply with quote

Seen enjoying a semi-retirement sometime in the early nineties at its company's yard is fleet # 954 - a 1973 GMC Model T6H-4523A and one of sixty-nine numbered between 901 and 969 operating for what was then the newly formed Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

# 954 and all of its siblings were most unusual as can be seen by the retrofitted door just forward of the rear door for the accommodation of wheelchair bound passengers.

By its configuration, it's difficult to say exactly how the system worked or even if it was still working at the time this bus was retired.

Chattanooga has a long history in public transit dating to the horse drawn coaches of the 1800's followed by electric cars through the second world war after which Southern Coach Lines ran buses until its takeover by CARTA in 1973.

Of course, there was always the 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' immortalized in song by Glenn Miller in 1941.

Photo thanks to Mike's GMC Page.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

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