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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2026 12:55 pm Post subject:

"Modern-day ASVs"/"pseudo trolleybuses"/"juice buggues",etc..........

Just was thinking about what the MTA fleet would have been like today, had the "'lectric bus" program taken root a decade or so earlier.

Who might have been producing the new vehicles?

While they were still independent, might the companies absorbed by the MTA in the early 2000s have also "taken the plunge", and began purchasing "juice buggies"?

Interesting "what if" to ponder............

"NYO"

["CLEAN AUR HYBRID BUS"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 10:37 am Post subject:

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bus

["MTA"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 7:38 pm Post subject:

Still haven't seen any of the new 40-foot "NEW FLYER "juice buggies"in my area; these buses are poised to be all on the roster by May, and are replacing the NABIs...........

"'NYO"

["22 HILLSIDE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 9:54 am Post subject:

A ''lectric" RTS..............

Had the RTS continued in production until the present day, I wonder if a battery version would now be offered ,and, if so,how much more efficient would they have been, over the "conventional" models of years past............

"NYO"

["RTS"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 5:42 pm Post subject:

Speaking of "juice buggies," one of 'em caught fire on the "Noo Joisey Toinpike" . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlI0_-vruM8

Wonder to what extent the batteries had to do with it . . .

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 5:56 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2026 11:13 pm Post subject:

Recall, also, back in 2025, the massive depot fire in Philadelphia, that destroyed a number of de-comissioned SEPTA buses, which was caused by the batteries in a PROTERRA....... Sad

Scary stuff, for sure............. Shocked

'NYO"

["SEPTA"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 9:03 am Post subject:

Also:

On the "SURFACE TRANSIT-EASTERN UNITED STATES" board, see my topic (6/5/25) on the massive SEPTA depot fire...........

"NYO"

["SEPTA"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:28 pm Post subject:

Forget the battery-powered "BINOS"......... Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_bus

Also, here is an interesting page on MUNI's steam-powered Fishbowl.......

["FULL STEAM AHEAD"]

https://www.sfmta.com/blog/munis-steam-powered-bus

["MUNI"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 1:16 pm Post subject:

iMHO............

The ONLY "'lectric bus" that I would feel TOTALLY SAFE riding aboard were the ones that had two trolley poles atop their roof, drawing "juice" from overhead wires.....(!!) Wink

"NYO"

["ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY"]

["PULLMAN"]

["MARMON-HERRINGTON"]

["TWIN COACH"]

{"ACF-BRILL"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2026 11:38 pm Post subject:

....should have quit while we were ahead...... Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157211

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157168

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["AVOID THE FUSS-RIDE WITH US!"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 11:23 am Post subject:

Meanwhile, up in "Bah-ston" (current bus roster).........

The MBTA currently rosters 80 40-foot NEW FLYER "juice buggies";some of these have left-hand doors for operation in the former trolleybus tunnel at Harvard.

Be sure to note the nostalgic 1967 photo taken at the busy Arborway yard (the lone "Patton"is indeed MORE than overshadowed, among all those Fishbowls and PCCs!) Shocked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBTA_bus

["T"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 7:41 pm Post subject:

It stands to reason that "juice buggies" will play a prominent role here.........

https://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/html/home/home.shtml