BusHunter Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 A few shots of #8100's. They got the destination sign working on #8158 and I took some shots of a few other buses i'm missing on my #8100's page, I might as well share.#8158:#8154:#8151: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 #8165 is in service this morning on the #65. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 #8165 is in service this morning on the #65.How ironic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 #8166 is on the #66 this morning. #8167 is on the #72 also. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 #8165 is in service this morning on the #65.How ironic!#8166 is on the #66 this morning. #8167 is on the #72 also.8167 wasn't on 67. 8168 won't be on 68. Next chance is 8170 on 70. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 (edited) 8167 wasn't on 67. 8168 won't be on 68. Next chance is 8170 on 70.I was going to say #8167 better not be on #67. Garmon would be hogging up all the new buses!! They need to bring a few of these to FG. If the Cubs are going to the World Series and what do they have for riders, many from out of town. The oldest junk buses they have and all service from the airport is the oldest equipment they have. Now that's a good way to show off your transit system as world class!! Edited October 23, 2015 by BusHunter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 I was going to say #8167 better not be on #67. Garmon would be hogging up all the new buses!! They need to bring a few of these to FG. I think the Cubs now are going to the World Series and what do they have for riders, many from out of town. The oldest junk buses they have and all service from the airport is the oldest equipment they have. Now that's a good way to show off your transit system as world class!! Don't forget though that NP does extra service on the 152 for Cubs home games. So it won't be only 6400s transporting any baseball fans around town for however long the Cubs' playoff schedule lasts. Also O'Hare is not the airport in the city so 3200s will be in the mix also. Another thing to consider is that if they clean the buses and trains as well as FG not putting out 6400s with missing panels, few outside transit workers and transit enthusiasts would even be paying attention to those particular buses and trains are the older units among CTA's revenue vehicles. From what I observe of out of town riders, very few of them even care what kind of bus or train comes just as long as they get to whatever city attraction they're trying to make it to and see. And CTA is not the first or only big city TA to have its oldest revenue vehicles on routes that serve and pass by that city's well known locations and attractions. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 ... From what I observe of out of town riders, very few of them even care what kind of bus or train comes just as long as they get to whatever city attraction they're trying to make it to and see....At supposedly an average of $1300 for a ticket on the secondary market, I don't think any out of towners are going to take the L. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajuan Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 At supposedly an average of $1300 for a ticket on the secondary market, I don't think any out of towners are going to take the L.Good point. And it's another detail that points to it quite possibly mainly only pretty much being transit fans and those transit workers who can distinguish between the different models of bus and rail cars currently in revenue service notice what's running on what. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordguy Posted October 16, 2015 Report Share Posted October 16, 2015 From what I observe of out of town riders, very few of them even care what kind of bus or train comes just as long as they get to whatever city attraction they're trying to make it to and see. And CTA is not the first or only big city TA to have its oldest revenue vehicles on routes that serve and pass by that city's well known locations and attractions. True. One MTA depot that serves Midtown and Lower Manhattan exclusively, still operates a large fleet of 16-year-old RTSes. They run all hours, too; not just peak periods. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 #8164 has arrived on the #73 today and #8168 is on the #54, so all buses should be in service up to #8168 now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 17, 2015 Report Share Posted October 17, 2015 #8164 has arrived on the #73 today and #8168 is on the #54, so all buses should be in service up to #8168 now.#8177 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 #8177That's what they are up to at south shops but they are probably getting more this weekend. Maybe up to #8183 unless something is happening still with the Novabus bus assembly slow down, which I doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 18, 2015 Report Share Posted October 18, 2015 That's what they are up to at south shops but they are probably getting more this weekend. Maybe up to #8183 unless something is happening still with the Novabus bus assembly slow down, which I doubt. A late night update: #8170 and #8171 are gone. #8176 has made it there. No other new ones have yet to arrive. #8172-75 and #8177 are still there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busfan2847 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 And here are some photos of it. Maybe part of it's problem is a defective destination sign. I'll have to notice if I see it working in the future. If not it's probably waiting on parts, but all 3 destination signs are not working which may be an internal problem on the bus. Maybe they figured it was finally time to send it out.8141 on the 20 this afternoon. Signs still not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 #8169 is on the #54B this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Here's a few shots of the recent #8160's put into service.#8168:#8164: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Here's some more #8160's, shots.#8167:#8166: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Here are some more pictures of #8160's including the newest in service #8169!!#8169:#8162:#8165:While not the greatest picture, I'll upload it, maybe i can get something better in the future. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 A late night update: #8170 and #8171 are gone. #8176 has made it there. No other new ones have yet to arrive. #8172-75 and #8177 are still there. I wonder why the budget only lists 275 buses by the end of the year, when up to #8177 is accounted for here at CTA. That's 278 buses. If they really are not getting anymore buses until spring, they should just send over the last of the #6400's to FG, Chicago is barely using them and they did receive 28 more buses at Chicago then they had. Maybe it would do something for FG as those are all the newer type #6400's. The #6400's are really slow, I was on #6453 and man that bus is slow. I thought it may have been the operator, but they did a relief and some young guy got the bus and it was still slow. I don't know why the #6400 series buses are still around. When they did the massive retirement, buses up to #6530 left, they should do that again but eliminate them all this time except for maybe #6515. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnlight Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Just a quick thought, if FG does get the 8200s, do you think they would push these buses into that garage first before considering bringing 1000s to FG? I'm thinking that Chicago will flush all their 6400s to FG and once they are all gone, the 8200s will be delivered to FG and FG will retire 6400's as the new ones get delivered. Once all 125 buses are delivered to FG, they will retire the remaining half of their 6400s in exchange for 1000s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Just a quick thought, if FG does get the 8200s, do you think they would push these buses into that garage first before considering bringing 1000s to FG? I'm thinking that Chicago will flush all their 6400s to FG and once they are all gone, the 8200s will be delivered to FG and FG will retire 6400's as the new ones get delivered. Once all 125 buses are delivered to FG, they will retire the remaining half of their 6400s in exchange for 1000s.Question is how many 1000s C has now, as it doesn't need more than about 110 of them (maybe 125). Otherwise, there should be a surplus of 1000s system wide, since the rehabs are over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 I wonder why the budget only lists 275 buses by the end of the year, when up to #8177 is accounted for here at CTA. That's 278 buses. If they really are not getting anymore buses until spring, they should just send over the last of the #6400's to FG, Chicago is barely using them and they did receive 28 more buses at Chicago then they had. Maybe it would do something for FG as those are all the newer type #6400's. The #6400's are really slow, I was on #6453 and man that bus is slow. I thought it may have been the operator, but they did a relief and some young guy got the bus and it was still slow. I don't know why the #6400 series buses are still around. When they did the massive retirement, buses up to #6530 left, they should do that again but eliminate them all this time except for maybe #6515. Now you know CTA budgets can be very misleading from time to time! Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a barrage of 8200s at the shop right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusHunter Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 #8170 made an appearance on the #54 this afternoon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garmon757 Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 #8141 sign still jacked up! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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