Anonymous Guy Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 King County Metro's new order of DE60LF's are finally making their rounds around Seattle. I spotted two today, but was only able to take one crappy cellphone shot. They're using the Cummins ISL engines instead of the Caterpillar C9 engines from KCM's previous order. But something that struck me as odd on these new DE60LF's is that they seem to have an enlarged pack on the front of the bus with electric cabling running towards the Hybrid pack on the trailer of the artic. Sorry to disappoint anyone concerned with aesthetics, but the buses we received had New Flyer's old aesthetics, rather than the revised look. Not sure if it'll be the same with Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geneking7320 Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 King County Metro's new order of DE60LF's are finally making their rounds around Seattle. I spotted two today, but was only able to take one crappy cellphone shot. They're using the Cummins ISL engines instead of the Caterpillar C9 engines from KCM's previous order. But something that struck me as odd on these new DE60LF's is that they seem to have an enlarged pack on the front of the bus with electric cabling running towards the Hybrid pack on the trailer of the artic. Sorry to disappoint anyone concerned with aesthetics, but the buses we received had New Flyer's old aesthetics, rather than the revised look. Not sure if it'll be the same with Chicago. Thanks for the post and pic! Does Metro still run any electric trolley buses in the tunnel? Gene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcmetro Posted June 11, 2008 Report Share Posted June 11, 2008 ^^ No Trolleys in tunnel anymore. There are 236 Metro and 22 Sound Transit hybrids that have a special 'tunnel-mode' operation. The 236 Breda Trolleys were scraped, although 59 of them were converted for regular trolley operation (on routes 7, 43, 44, and 49) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Apparently the doors will be on the left, if you believe this month's President's Report. See the prior thread regarding PowerPoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Apparently the doors will be on the left, if you believe this month's President's Report. See the prior thread regarding PowerPoint. Highly paid amateurs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Highly paid amateurs. I agree with you there. There were typos that shouldn't have been there, and the page listing the FG routes going live on the 23rd was disorganized with the routes not even given in proper order. The previous page had commas in the route names where there should have been slashes or dashes. All that money they're paid and they can't even proofread their work? I hope he wasn't showing this presentation to any big government honchos city or otherwise this time around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVTArider Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Nice to see New Flyer is still doing the standard design. I like it a little better but the redesign is good too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUITS Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 BRTs now have optional streetside doors. This allows boarding and alighting of passengers from islands located in the center of the roadway. http://newflyer.com/index/cleveland_brt_street_curb and in action... http://newflyer.com/docs/investor_relation...w_FlyerBRT.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Guy Posted June 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 Thanks for the post and pic! Does Metro still run any electric trolley buses in the tunnel? Gene No problem. Tcmetro already answered your question, but in case you were wondering about the overhead wires indicating trolley presence, those are actually overhead for light-rail cars. On the tail-end of the tunnel, they still have tons of overhead trolley wires that they haven't removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcmetro Posted June 14, 2008 Report Share Posted June 14, 2008 It seems like these new buses are based out of Tukwila Garage. I have seen pics of them on the 101 on flickr, so they will probably run the 101, 106, 150, 174, 194, and possibly others like 120 and 152. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Guy Posted June 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 It seems like these new buses are based out of Tukwila Garage. I have seen pics of them on the 101 on flickr, so they will probably run the 101, 106, 150, 174, 194, and possibly others like 120 and 152. Link to that flickr? Anyways they may not run it on the 120, as they've been consistently using D60LFs on that route. However, I have noticed that they occasionally take away some of those D60LFs and put them on the 48 route, leaving D60HFs to fill some 120 runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwantae Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 What about New Flyer D60LFRs??? I was hoping that we'll get those, I like the new look on the front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcmetro Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Here are the links: www.flickr.com/photos/wings777/257639592 www.flickr.com/photos/wings777/257556625 www.flickr.com/photos/wings777/257639565 www.flickr.com/photos/viriyincy/sets/721 Here is a discussion about the new buses: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/forum/boards...?topicid=120607 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymous Guy Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 From those flickrs, I found links to the KCM flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/kcmetro/pool/ Those exposed electric cables on the artic joints don't look too nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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