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JimmiB
Age: 81 Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 516 Location: Lebanon, PA
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:36 am Post subject: How would you like to drive this! |
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Photo I just came across on Flickr. Photo by Riquelme Robles Marcos.
Only description was "The Beast Volcano Buss Double Decker Super Articulated". No location indicated but looks like the U.K.
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GBL Rebel Moderator
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 608 Location: Long Island, N.Y.
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 10:36 am Post subject: |
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I accept the challenge. In NYC of course!
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Mr. Linsky BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 5071 Location: BRENTWOOD, CA. - WOODMERE, N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:36 am Post subject: |
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I wonder what the capacity might be?
Looks to me to be somewhere around 50 passengers per section which would mean roughly 200 riders total (that, boys, is one heck of a swinging load!).
Also, I have to think that there may be one if not more conductors to control all those people.
They might do O.K. out here in L.A. but forget about most parts of New York City!
BTW; my answer to the question is NO - I wouldn't be seen dead at that steering wheel!
Very interesting find and thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Mr. 'L'
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Hart Bus
Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:35 am Post subject: |
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GBL Rebel wrote: | I accept the challenge. In NYC of course! |
Does that include Chinatown???????
Hart Bus
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GBL Rebel Moderator
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 608 Location: Long Island, N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hart Bus wrote: | GBL Rebel wrote: | I accept the challenge. In NYC of course! |
Does that include Chinatown???????
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I see you don't know me very well. Chinatown - ABSOLUTELY!!!
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:00 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm.....does Megabus know about this?
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Hart Bus
Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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I bet every NYC Fireman assigned to a ladder company and has driven a tlller rig would jump at the chance. It would be easy for him since there's no traffic to navigate and the rig is moving very slowly.
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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The large steam tractors were amazing....looks like there was a crew of three to operate each one...a driver, a fireman, and a brakeman....and look at how many turns of the steering wheel it took to change direction...'armstrong power', I assume....
Love those steam whistle's....
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JimmiB
Age: 81 Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 516 Location: Lebanon, PA
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:00 am Post subject: |
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And I thought it was tough turning a 4104 with no power steering!
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:04 am Post subject: |
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JimmiB wrote: | And I thought it was tough turning a 4104 with no power steering! |
If you think that 4104 was tough, try doing what I had to recently...took a J4500 from The Port over to the Academy garage in Hoboken with a broken power steering system....
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JimmiB
Age: 81 Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 516 Location: Lebanon, PA
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver wrote: | JimmiB wrote: | And I thought it was tough turning a 4104 with no power steering! |
If you think that 4104 was tough, try doing what I had to recently...took a J4500 from The Port over to the Academy garage in Hoboken with a broken power steering system.... |
I used to get stuck with the rescue jobs. We should start a thread on nursing broken buses back home.
BTW, we sold that 04 to some guy down south. He called us to complain that the power steering didn't work. It NEVER had power steering.
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GBL Rebel Moderator
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 608 Location: Long Island, N.Y.
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Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver wrote: | JimmiB wrote: | And I thought it was tough turning a 4104 with no power steering! |
If you think that 4104 was tough, try doing what I had to recently...took a J4500 from The Port over to the Academy garage in Hoboken with a broken power steering system.... |
Nothing like getting a bus back minus the power steering. I found the Orion V dashboard could withstand a boot pressed against it to get a left turn.
I brought some model back for no power steering and had a shop foreman ask me "why didn't you tow it?", to which he got "I'm not you, I'll be a man about it"!
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Re: "Rescue Jobs"....I'm usually the "designated hitter" er...make that driver, to take those over to Academy...the usual ailments, like broken off mirrors, etc.....always fun to negotiate thru traffic to get to the Lincoln Tunnel, with a missing mirror.
As for power steering....I have driven an old PD-4103 with no power steering, and if memory is correct...seemed harder to steer than the Eagle's were later on. The steering on the Eagle was actually very nice, so long as you were moving even slightly.
I recall when Edwards Motor Transit (Lakes-To-Sea System) acquired some of those around the time of Continental Trailways purchasing them. They were in a Washington-Sunbury-Elmira-Buffalo pool with Eastern Greyhound Lines, EMT operating the Sunbury-Elmira segment. One day they cut in one of their new Eagles at Williamsport on a northbound trip, instead of the usual PD-4107. When the Greyhound driver received it, and learned it had no power steering, he refused the coach, and instead took the EGL 4106 that came from Philly and Scranton to Elmira, on to Buffalo.
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JimmiB
Age: 81 Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 516 Location: Lebanon, PA
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Brought an MC-9 from 30th St. Station in Philly back to Lebanon with only 3rd and 4th gears. Not too bad till I got off the turnpike. Burned up the clutch about 3 miles from our shop.
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