More Bus Moves

[Sam92]

2 hours ago, Javi75 said:

I thought the 6400s were there until the 7900s replaced them. 

Nah. 77th took a lot of Flyers from FG and sent 6400s in return. That's part of how FG became all 6400s for a long time until the 8350s came. It led to some claims of the south side getting favoritism vs the NW side 

[79th to lakefront 1302]

8062 has moved to 77th garage 

[Shannon tahoeppv]

Im not on the bus side but what's up with this swap im seeing loads of C some 3 & 7 buses popped up at 6

[Bus1883]

On 8/22/2026 at 4:55 PM, Sam92 said:

Nah. 77th took a lot of Flyers from FG and sent 6400s in return. That's part of how FG became all 6400s for a long time until the 8350s came. It led to some claims of the south side getting favoritism vs the NW side 

I was about to point that out what u stated. I was wondering why did 77th get rid of all of its 6400s in for of 1000s up north in March of 2014 before the 7900s arrived. 

[Sam92]

4 hours ago, Bus1883 said:

I was about to point that out what u stated. I was wondering why did 77th get rid of all of its 6400s in for of 1000s up north in March of 2014 before the 7900s arrived. 

Because for some odd reason CTA decided to make FG all 6400s and trade it's Flyers out in exchange. I guess the artics being at 77th meant that they didn't have as many 6400s when those moves happened so it ended up an all New Flyer garage for a while

[Busjack]

18 hours ago, Sam92 said:

Because for some odd reason CTA decided to make FG all 6400s and trade it's Flyers out in exchange. I guess the artics being at 77th meant that they didn't have as many 6400s when those moves happened so it ended up an all New Flyer garage for a while

I assume you're talking about considerably after Archer closed, and 74th and F got its 6400s.

Historically speaking, it's not that CTA wanted to make FG all 6400s, but that 77th wears out its buses and dumps them elsewhere,such as 7400s to NP for 9600s,4400s to103 for 5300s, etc.

[Sam92]

3 hours ago, Busjack said:

I assume you're talking about considerably after Archer closed, and 74th and F got its 6400s.

Historically speaking, it's not that CTA wanted to make FG all 6400s, but that 77th wears out its buses and dumps them elsewhere,such as 7400s to NP for 9600s,4400s to103 for 5300s, etc.

I'll search the forum and link the discussion for reference: but what I'm referring to happened after the Dan Ryan rebuild when 77th tried artics. Remember after Archer closed FG still had some New Flyers. But after the Dan Ryan reconstruction we had debates on here on why FG ended up getting all 6400s while other garages got newer equipment. I agree that 77th wears down its equipment which is why I argued that they and other garages dumped them to FG during that time

[Mr.cta85]

1591, 1595, 1598-99, 8752-53 are all at 74th. I seen them come in with my own eyes. 

[Bus1883]

1 hour ago, Mr.cta85 said:

1591, 1595, 1598-99, 8752-53 are all at 74th. I seen them come in with my own eyes. 

Something’s at 74th is gonna get evicted in trade for those. I’m guessing more 8000’s

[garmon757]

10 hours ago, Mr.cta85 said:

1591, 1595, 1598-99, 8752-53 are all at 74th. I seen them come in with my own eyes. 

1006, 1113, 1124, 1139, 1143, 1179, 1215, 1249, 1267, 1277, 1441, 1613, 7954, 8102, 8755, and 8756 as well. 

[79th to lakefront 1302]

8019 has moved to 77th it's on 79th 

[YoungBusLover]

1 hour ago, garmon757 said:

1006, 1113, 1124, 1139, 1143, 1179, 1215, 1249, 1267, 1277, 1441, 1613, 7954, 8102, 8755, and 8756 as well. 

All loans for the time being but they may end up being permanent. A lot of #8000s have started migrated to C,K and 103rd. 77th somehow got #1027 and #1100 last night. FG got sent some loaners as well. #1532 is one I can remember.

[Chammon Moore]

8 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

All loans for the time being but they may end up permanent. A lot of #8000s have started migrated to C,K and 103rd. 77th somehow got #1027 and #1100 last night.

There also flyers migrated because 1444 is at C as well

[YoungBusLover]

2 minutes ago, Chammon Moore said:

There also flyers migrated because 1444 is at C as well

Also a loaner for the time being. Quite an odd shuffle with not much going on in the city this weekend outside of the small pop up festivals.

[Chammon Moore]

25 minutes ago, YoungBusLover said:

Also a loaner for the time being. Quite an odd shuffle with not much going on in the city this weekend outside of the small pop up festivals.

Ok then

[Chammon Moore]

1581 and 8052 have migrated to 103rd

[Javi75]

What is 6 getting in return for everything going out to C, K & 3?

[YoungBusLover]

9 hours ago, Javi75 said:

What is 6 getting in return for everything going out to C, K & 3?

#8350s........

[Javi75]

8 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8350s........

I thought they’d be short on buses in general with their 1000s & 7900s popping up at other garages. But from the looks of that they went from around 130 7900s to just 97 I guess they were tired of the abuse. 

[Busjack]

4 hours ago, Javi75 said:

I thought they’d be short on buses in general with their 1000s & 7900s popping up at other garages. But from tAhe looks of that they went from around 130 7900s to just 97 I guess they were tired of the abuse. 

Also,if you accept the screenshot,74is about 50 buses over capacity.

[EasyMoney]

12 hours ago, YoungBusLover said:

#8350s........

What website is this need it for research 

[Chammon Moore]

17 minutes ago, EasyMoney said:

What website is this need it for research 

Buswatch

[Javi75]

4 hours ago, Chammon Moore said:

Buswatch

Thank you, a lot of interesting trends with the garage rosters. 

[Busjack]

10 hours ago, Javi75 said:

I thought they’d be short on buses in general with their 1000s & 7900s popping up at other garages. But from the looks of that they went from around 130 7900s to just 97 I guess they were tired of the abuse. 

Again,accepting Buswatch, I don't see any reason for 74th to have 132 1000s . But maybe that 'is unreliable (as I previously suspected),since it still accounts for 1030 1000s, although a mess (probably 300-400) are on LTH. I'm not going to go through all of the  "last seen" dates to see which ones may be still around.

For that matter, it still tracks 23 of the 600s. Maybe there are 15.

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[YoungBusLover]

With the recent events in regards to maintenance at 74th, FG lost there head of maintenance to 74th to fix the issues they have going down there with OOS equipment. Now I'm just like you when it comes to the amount of Flyers they've received over #8350s. I can see why the constant breakdowns of #8000s have finally gotten the boot after being there since they entered service. 77th in return has taken on getting rid of there flyers to meet that 75 - 100 mark threshold I've been alluding to for the past couple of years that 103rd, K and now NP has also done. Now it's just a matter of getting thing running smoothly again at 74th as far as keeping equipment running. I'm sure by next spring there will be another shift but hopefully this time it will be #7900s & #8350s getting spread out evenly throughout the system.