New Eldorados?

[Busjack]

On 10/4/2017 at 10:49 AM, rotjohns said:

I would say that these buses are probably going to lower producing routes, but then again I've physically seen 6600s on #322 so who knows.  Most of the 6600s should still be in decent shape to hang around at least thru next year.  Plus if any of them fold at N or S, West can always move theirs.  

 

NS NABIs are only 40 ft. ones. 35 ft. ones went to S when NS got 6477-84.

[Pace831]

Last Wednesday 10/4 at South Holland:

6720 and 6721 in the garage:

They were getting some of the new CNGs ready to go:

17508 is the bus with rear end damage, not 17501.

2696 is still here. As I posted in another thread, 2766 went to Heritage.

They are finally clearing out some of the community vehicles that were parked on the side of the building.

Then 6281 arrived, followed by 6273. Evidently they were trading them for CNGs. The two NABIs appeared on West routes the next day.

[Pace831]

Thursday 10/5 at Chandler:

17570 has arrived, so the CNGs are almost all here:

2764, and the two others, no longer have BOS wraps:

Looks like a few buses were in for warranty work:

[Pace831]

Today 10/11 at Chandler:

They've been busy yesterday and today moving buses around. These two were being parked by the fence. 6725 says "METRA STATION" and 6734 says "NOT IN SERVICE". I also saw 6736 yesterday taking a test drive down 191st.

17565 is in the same place it was last week:

Then 6708 pulled in and I got a bunch of pictures of it. I'm sure the driver wondered why I was taking photos of his bus.

[Busjack]

25 minutes ago, Pace831 said:

. These two were being parked by the fence. 6725 says "METRA STATION"

This appears to be a reading that ENC has available to it, as it has shown up in some ENC literature (of bus #2010, Google is our friend).

 

25 minutes ago, Pace831 said:

Then 6708 pulled in and I got a bunch of pictures of it.

The thing I noted was the "South Div. Pace IL" I saw a similar "Heritage Div Pace IL" sign on a NW Orion VI. From the other pictures, it looks like the sign needs to be programmed.

 

Thanks, again.

[rotjohns]

Wouldn't it be wild if 2696 ended up at North?  Start a trend of taking out the 6600s eventually?  They'll have to retire at some point, but there's no sensible replacement for them right now.  I doubt that move happens, but Pace is unconventional so who knows?

[Busjack]

14 hours ago, Pace831 said:

17508 is the bus with rear end damage, not 17501.

As I indicated, I just got back, and while I commented on your last post, I didn't scroll up.

Anyway, on this one, I made the inference based on what I saw on your photo, through the fence. You obviously got a better picture this time.

14 hours ago, Pace831 said:

2696 is still here.

As usual, my first reaction was "what's that got to do with the photo?" but quadruple zooming showed what you meant.Since it is in the garage, they were obviously working on it to send it out.

2 hours ago, rotjohns said:

Wouldn't it be wild if 2696 ended up at North?  Start a trend of taking out the 6600s eventually?  They'll have to retire at some point, but there's no sensible replacement for them right now.  I doubt that move happens, but Pace is unconventional so who knows?

The inference I still have is that they had approximately 223 chances to send an EZ Rider to North, but obviously they didn't do so, so it isn't going to happen. I don't think it goes back to McHenry, since other EZ Riders were sent there (2661, 2662, according to the inventory, in addition to McHenry retaining 2697-8), but what may come into play is something like @Pace831 saying that a Heritage bus is over at Chandler.

But, obviously, Pace is not going to send an orphan to N.

[Pace831]

5 hours ago, Busjack said:

The inference I still have is that they had approximately 223 chances to send an EZ Rider to North, but obviously they didn't do so, so it isn't going to happen. I don't think it goes back to McHenry, since other EZ Riders were sent there (2661, 2662, according to the inventory, in addition to McHenry retaining 2697-8), but what may come into play is something like @Pace831 saying that a Heritage bus is over at Chandler.

I figured Heritage got 2766 to cover 511, which is now using a bus rather than a community vehicle. I hadn't considered the possibility that it was a loaner while 2764 was at Chandler. Curiously, 2764 is on 507 right now, while 2766 is not showing on any Heritage route.

[Busjack]

15 hours ago, Pace831 said:

I figured Heritage got 2766 to cover 511, which is now using a bus rather than a community vehicle. I hadn't considered the possibility that it was a loaner while 2764 was at Chandler. Curiously, 2764 is on 507 right now, while 2766 is not showing on any Heritage route.

2766 is now on 507

What always makes the guessing hard:

• 2766 has always seemed to be a roaming bus (also used as a photo background, and I'm not sure why it is the only one that has the perforated back).
• Like 512, it could be interlined with something else.

I was only implying that there might be another reason for Heritage being short, as opposed to FV needing it.

[Busjack]

On 10/4/2017 at 7:55 AM, ethan2226 said:

#6707 is on the 619

#6710 is on the 421

#6707 and #6710 are at NS.

New since then on NS routes are 6709, 6711, 6712 (626) and 6714 (619)

[BusHunter]

56 minutes ago, Busjack said:

New since then on NS routes are 6709, 6711, 6712 (626) and 6714 (619)

So NS is losing all it's NABI's. That's what it sounds like anyway. North is going to need something, when these older NABI's say Adios!!

[ethan2226]

2 hours ago, BusHunter said:

So NS is losing all it's NABI's. That's what it sounds like anyway. North is going to need something, when these older NABI's say Adios!!

And the Ravinia Orions.

[Busjack]

3 hours ago, BusHunter said:

So NS is losing all it's NABI's. That's what it sounds like anyway. North is going to need something, when these older NABI's say Adios!!

Not sure about "all." The blue ones are still around. I wonder if the white wrapped ones are moving on, though.

Also, I had a visual of 6712 tonight.

[ethan2226]

I am guessing that Ravinia is going to have some 6262-6322 Blue NABIs soon.

[ethan2226]

1 hour ago, ethan2226 said:

And the Ravinia Orions.

I am guessing that Ravinia is going to have some 6262-6322 Blue NABIs soon. In addition the the Ravinia Orions, Ravinia also has some 6600s.

[garmon757]

#17550-53 has begun operation. 

[mel bernero]

Pace 17568 was on display at APTA in Atlanta earlier in the week.

[rotjohns]

14 hours ago, Busjack said:

Not sure about "all." The blue ones are still around. I wonder if the white wrapped ones are moving on, though.

Well some of the white wrapped ones have already been moved to West.  Maybe the blue ones follow?

[BusHunter]

On 10/14/2017 at 2:55 AM, mel bernero said:

Pace 17568 was on display at APTA in Atlanta earlier in the week.

Yeah they are all built most likely. NABI's are a thing of the past at South or soon will be!! I might as well take these off the roster or put them in a not in service category.

[rotjohns]

20 hours ago, BusHunter said:

Yeah they are all built most likely. NABI's are a thing of the past at South or soon will be!! I might as well take these off the roster or put them in a not in service category.

They aren't gone yet.  6183, 6192, and 6194 are out right now on Webwatch as far as the early Nabis.  

[BusHunter]

58 minutes ago, rotjohns said:

They aren't gone yet.  6183, 6192, and 6194 are out right now on Webwatch as far as the early Nabis.  

Yeah I think I saw #6615 out there too. Looks like they have as many old nabi buses left as what they are trying to acquire for CNG's. But they seem like they have more later NABI's #6317, #6268, #6269 and a few others which makes me think they have about 15 older buses left.

[Pace831]

I went by South Holland on Friday but didn't see anything that hasn't been reported already.

This morning 6743 was at Chandler, but I couldn't see what else because the gate was closed.

[Busjack]

9 hours ago, Pace831 said:

This morning 6743 was at Chandler, but I couldn't see what else because the gate was closed.

Buses are coming fast, and this indicates it isn't just filling holes.

[MetroShadow]

On 10/11/2017 at 8:21 PM, Busjack said:

This appears to be a reading that ENC has available to it, as it has shown up in some ENC literature (of bus #2010, Google is our friend).

 

The thing I noted was the "South Div. Pace IL" I saw a similar "Heritage Div Pace IL" sign on a NW Orion VI. From the other pictures, it looks like the sign needs to be programmed.

 

Thanks, again.

That's usually part of the headsign programming package. Usually, the first or last code to insert. I believe "Metra Station" is part of that package as well (set by HASTUS?)

[Busjack]

35 minutes ago, MetroShadow said:

set by HASTUS?

I think we discussed before that it was the secret Luminator program, which isn't Elyse or Helen.