jajuan Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 2 hours ago, artthouwill said: While I agree that Forest Glen shouldn't be shafted as far as having new equipment, the question is how much new equipment do they need? On weekends nearly half of their fleet is laid up in the garage. So whatever old equipment they have can get a break which is why CTA sends high mileage buses there because they won't rack up nearly as many miles. Also @YoungBusLover pointed out that South Shops had nowhere to store the new arrivals so FG became the default storage garage since they had room. There are still 200 more buses to be delivered to be divided between 77th, 74th. FG, and possibly NP. 55 minutes ago, Busjack said: Why are you so hung up on that? Looks like NP is next Yeah there's no maybe to NP. It already has two. So it's a matter of how many at this point after seeing how many 74th may get and how much much of a further bump up the other two possibly get if they do get a bump up. When it comes to getting 8350s, it's K that got the shaft when look at the numbers.😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.NewFlyer1279 Posted September 5 Report Share Posted September 5 2 hours ago, Busjack said: Why are you so hung up on that? Looks like NP is next tbh is looks like 74th and NP are next up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungBusLover Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 4 hours ago, jajuan said: Yeah there's no maybe to NP. It already has two. So it's a matter of how many at this point after seeing how many 74th may get and how much much of a further bump up the other two possibly get if they do get a bump up. When it comes to getting 8350s, it's K that got the shaft when look at the numbers.😂 Kedzie definitely got shafted 😂, Thank you for responding to that part of my statement. To this day I don't understand why they only have 33 #8350s and to add insult to injury NP steals 2 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon tahoeppv Posted September 6 Report Share Posted September 6 19 hours ago, artthouwill said: While I agree that Forest Glen shouldn't be shafted as far as having new equipment, the question is how much new equipment do they need? On weekends nearly half of their fleet is laid up in the garage. So whatever old equipment they have can get a break which is why CTA sends high mileage buses there because they won't rack up nearly as many miles. Also @YoungBusLover pointed out that South Shops had nowhere to store the new arrivals so FG became the default storage garage since they had room. There are still 200 more buses to be delivered to be divided between 77th, 74th. FG, and possibly NP. Yea that's all I'm with as many buses coming in 7 can pull right from the new buses that's coming in now lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master58 Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 4103 is back at NP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 I have a theory on this, and it's not "NP is not going to get any." by my calculation, an even distribution among 7 garages would be 85 8350s and 65 1000s, with artics and 7900s making up the difference (of approx. 100 per garage). As I noted, NP on the street looks like old 103rd (and now 74th) with 1100s and 1400-1500s. Its 1700s-1800s are falling away, and the remaining probably will be replaced with about 85 of the 200 buses to be delivered in the next 6 months. The other 115 will be scattered around. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted September 9 Report Share Posted September 9 On 9/7/2024 at 6:07 PM, Busjack said: I have a theory on this, and it's not "NP is not going to get any." by my calculation, an even distribution among 7 garages would be 85 8350s and 65 1000s, with artics and 7900s making up the difference (of approx. 100 per garage). As I noted, NP on the street looks like old 103rd (and now 74th) with 1100s and 1400-1500s. Its 1700s-1800s are falling away, and the remaining probably will be replaced with about 85 of the 200 buses to be delivered in the next 6 months. The other 115 will be scattered around. Quite logical because there's almost no way all 200 are going to get stacked at NP especially with 77th and 74th also being at over 100 NF standards like NP. The final tally may look different of course since some garages had 7900s and also taking into account K, NP, and 103rd all having artics in their equipment tallies. But it's basically given that all seven garages will have something out of the 8350s. For the time being it's a rolling rotation of clearing out those options 3 and 4 NFs due to the rusting issue on those. There's also to some degree filling in gaps among the artics with 40 footers and available remaining artics because a number of the artics have also been hit with similar rust issues due to their also having carbon steel bodies like the later option 1000s if I'm remembering the earlier posts about the rust issue correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 4103 is back at Kedzie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master58 Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 4144 is at Kedzie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted September 10 Report Share Posted September 10 42 minutes ago, Master58 said: 4144 is at Kedzie. 4004 4104 4127 4144 4159 4162 4166 4171 and 4201 have been at Kedzie for a few weeks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renardo870 Posted Tuesday at 07:28 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 07:28 PM 20 minutes ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: 4004 4104 4127 4144 4159 4162 4166 4171 and 4201 have been at Kedzie for a few weeks. Did K get an increase of artics from NP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 07:53 PM 24 minutes ago, renardo870 said: Did K get an increase of artics from NP? Yes they did. They also recently got some extra 40 footers from 77th, but it appears 77th got those 40 footers back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master58 Posted Tuesday at 09:40 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 09:40 PM 2 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: 4004 4104 4127 4144 4159 4162 4166 4171 and 4201 have been at Kedzie for a few weeks. I didn't know Kedzie got the many artics from NP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted Wednesday at 05:07 AM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 05:07 AM 7 hours ago, Master58 said: I didn't know Kedzie got the many artics from NP. The 1100’s at Kedzie a few weeks ago moved to North Park. Kedzie has a couple other 1100’s now from Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chammon Moore Posted Wednesday at 01:56 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 01:56 PM 1725,1797,1878 P To K 8346 is at 77th currently on the 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chammon Moore Posted Wednesday at 10:03 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 10:03 PM 8 hours ago, Chammon Moore said: 1725,1797,1878 P To K 8346 is at 77th currently on the 2 1725,1797,1878 back at P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted Thursday at 09:19 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 09:19 PM Not a move, but definitely a rare sight these days. Spotted 1395 downtown on the 56 Milwaukee a few minutes ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted Friday at 02:08 AM Report Share Posted Friday at 02:08 AM 4 hours ago, jajuan said: Not a move, but definitely a rare sight these days. Spotted 1395 downtown on the 56 Milwaukee a few minutes ago. There’s a D40LF or a couple now daily on the 56 (weekdays). Idk abt the weekends tho. Block 56-454 on the weekdays is always a D40LF which is nice to see. D40LF’s barely run on the 90 but are there from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javi75 Posted Friday at 07:37 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 07:37 PM On 9/4/2024 at 8:53 AM, YoungBusLover said: You do realize 77th had only received 1 brand new bus being #8405 until the Blue Line shuttles . FG and 103rd received pretty much a majority of the Deliveries early on and then C took a majority of the rest while K and 77th got bread crumbs. 74th and 77th has had the same amount of equipment for about 8 - 10 years now when it comes to the #1000s and #7900s/ #8000s. The quote on quote "77th always abuses equipment or runs it into the ground." Isn't necessarily true since I've been there for practically the last 5 years now. Have the 89 #7900s shown there age after 300k miles at one garage? Yes. Have the 150+ #1000s we have made it more difficult to maintain the #7900s simultaneously? Absolutely. FG had a surplus of buses that they really didn't need after the DNC and they just happen to be brand new but when you look at the rosters you'll see that FG and 77th have just about the same amount of 7900s/8350s so who really got shafted in the end? Heck we even have more #1000s than FG. If we want to throw any garage in the system right now that is getting shafted I'll showcase the rosters below and you tell me who is really getting shafted right now. 😅 My prediction for where the last 400 1000s will end up is them being condensed to just four garages NP, FG, 6 & 7. C, K & 3 are trending in the direction of shipping off their remaining 1000s and having all their fleets with the exception of the 600s at C & artics at K & 3 being Novas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rail Introvert Posted Saturday at 12:54 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 12:54 AM 5 hours ago, Javi75 said: My prediction for where the last 400 1000s will end up is them being condensed to just four garages NP, FG, 6 & 7. C, K & 3 are trending in the direction of shipping off their remaining 1000s and having all their fleets with the exception of the 600s at C & artics at K & 3 being Novas. SMH!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chammon Moore Posted Saturday at 11:20 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 11:20 AM 1075 C to F currently on the 76 2006 C to F currently on the 81 FG is next with new fareboxes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chammon Moore Posted Saturday at 09:16 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:16 PM 9 hours ago, Chammon Moore said: 1075 C to F currently on the 76 2006 C to F currently on the 81 FG is next with new fareboxes 2025 C to F currently on the 77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungBusLover Posted yesterday at 12:31 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:31 AM 3 hours ago, Chammon Moore said: 2025 C to F currently on the 77 That bus came straight from SS, I saw it earlier in the week getting some work done on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MALTDISNEY Posted yesterday at 01:38 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 01:38 AM 2006, 2025 are they temporary or permanent moves ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.NewFlyer1279 Posted yesterday at 02:15 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 02:15 AM 2000, 1065, 1067 C to F 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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