BusHunter Posted March 31, 2016 Report Posted March 31, 2016 On a lighter note #8196 came out yesterday evening for a tripper. Luckily I was in the area already and snapped this pic before it had a chance to pull in. #8196: 1 Quote
Busjack Posted March 31, 2016 Report Posted March 31, 2016 7 minutes ago, BusHunter said: On a lighter note #8196 came out yesterday evening for a tripper. Lucky that Emanuel said that was consistent with Chicago's values. Quote
BusHunter Posted March 31, 2016 Report Posted March 31, 2016 8 minutes ago, Busjack said: Lucky that Emanuel said that was consistent with Chicago's values. Seems like they are really stepping carefully. Sounds like it was out for a tripper both evenings. No signs of the other two yet either which is sort of uncharacteristic to just release one bus when you have 3. Hopefully this doesn't delay the #8200's cause I'm tired of waiting for them. I was noticing at FG they have really been running the #1000's the last two days and they only have 34. I think they hardly stay in the garage. I haven't heard of any failures so far. They are really dependable compared to what's there. I remember when fg had 128 new buses, the old ones hardly came out. Weekends were exclusively new buses and the weekdays most of the older buses came out in the rush. If only there was a way they could at least get half a fleet of buses, I think there would be a great improvement there. Maybe they can do it by mid to late summer. Quote
jajuan Posted March 31, 2016 Report Posted March 31, 2016 18 minutes ago, BusHunter said: Seems like they are really stepping carefully. Sounds like it was out for a tripper both evenings. No signs of the other two yet either which is sort of uncharacteristic to just release one bus when you have 3. Hopefully this doesn't delay the #8200's cause I'm tired of waiting for them. I was noticing at FG they have really been running the #1000's the last two days and they only have 34. I think they hardly stay in the garage. I haven't heard of any failures so far. They are really dependable compared to what's there. I remember when fg had 128 new buses, the old ones hardly came out. Weekends were exclusively new buses and the weekdays most of the older buses came out in the rush. If only there was a way they could at least get half a fleet of buses, I think there would be a great improvement there. Maybe they can do it by mid to late summer. I thought it was 35 (1000-1034), but I've been seeing your point on those east-west routes especially. Now when I wait for a SB #X9, I actually have to pay attention to the route number when I see a New Flyer coming, the same as when I see an amber signed Nova bus. Quote
BusHunter Posted March 31, 2016 Report Posted March 31, 2016 1 hour ago, jajuan said: I thought it was 35 (1000-1034), but I've been seeing your point on those east-west routes especially. Now when I wait for a SB #X9, I actually have to pay attention to the route number when I see a New Flyer coming, the same as when I see an amber signed Nova bus. No not #1034, that's 103rd. At least the number signs work on a nf, these older buses are sometimes driving around with no signs. Quote
garmon757 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 8 hours ago, BusHunter said: On a lighter note #8196 came out yesterday evening for a tripper. Luckily I was in the area already and snapped this pic before it had a chance to pull in. #8196: You're two days late my friend! 1 Quote
BusHunter Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 2 hours ago, garmon757 said: You're two days late my friend! Yeah where's your picture? I may be two days late but at least I got a picture!! 1 Quote
garmon757 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 33 minutes ago, BusHunter said: Yeah where's your picture? I may be two days late but at least I got a picture!! You win this time you bus hog! Quote
sw4400 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 1 hour ago, BusHunter said: Yeah where's your picture? I may be two days late but at least I got a picture!! 1 hour ago, garmon757 said: You win this time you bus hog! @BusHunter @garmon757..... 1 Quote
Busjack Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 27 minutes ago, BusHunter said: Uh Oh!! April fools, or a month early? Quote
sw4400 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 And Forest Glen gets the short end yet again.... Quote
BusHunter Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 15 minutes ago, Busjack said: April fools, or a month early? That would be a joke right, FG and 103rd are both in the running for these and they end up at Chicago, where they go all Nova and have just about all the newest buses. Quote
sw4400 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 Just now, BusHunter said: That would be a joke right, FG and 103rd are both in the running for these and they end up at Chicago, where they go all Nova and have just about all the newest buses. Quote
BusHunter Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 19 minutes ago, Busjack said: Or it might be like in 2002 when C got some of the buses with orange signs. Maybe the split is at 8212. I wouldn't mind trading a few #1900's to the glen for these. You know I liked what CTA was doing before when they had post #1930's at C, 74th, 77th, and a couple at NP. Because they are longitudinal, they serve the high traffic routes better, the strollers, the crowds all move better on these. I would look at my top ridership routes and maybe try and run these there. It seems a waste to run them on the #57 for instance. I can only think someone at hq is looking at garage ridership as high at chicago. 77th probably has a better argument though, especially if they are not having artics. Quote
Busjack Posted April 1, 2016 Report Posted April 1, 2016 16 minutes ago, BusHunter said: I can only think someone at hq is looking at garage ridership as high at chicago. That argument can be made given many of its crosstown route and picking up 157. Quote
busfan2847 Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 8 hours ago, BusHunter said: Uh Oh!! M203 655 is 8102. A clever April Fools! 2 Quote
Busjack Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 8 minutes ago, busfan2847 said: M203 655 is 8102. A clever April Fools! I figured someone was sharp enough to figure out the license plate. Quote
garmon757 Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 8 hours ago, BusHunter said: Uh Oh!! You joker!!!! LOL I can't even stop laughing hard!!! Quote
BusHunter Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 14 hours ago, garmon757 said: You joker!!!! LOL I can't even stop laughing hard!!! Yeah well #8224 I figured would be pushing it. (maybe we can sneak one more future bus in) Happy April Fool's Guys!! It's really easy to do if anyone wants to do it. I use Gimp. It's a free program. There's ordinary options where you can cut and paste and then there are cool options like you can change the perspective of stuff as in angles. It's something they use in visual pinball. How do you think they made all those tables. It's all about manipulating images. I'm not perfect, but you can make these look alot better if you magnify them before you cut and paste. They still come out alright. It seems to help also with the tint if you take from one picture and paste to the next. (same image) then your tint will look uniform and always paste from two pics with the same res or as close as you can get. Quote
sw4400 Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 2 hours ago, BusHunter said: Yeah well #8224 I figured would be pushing it. (maybe we can sneak one more future bus in) It's really easy to do if anyone wants to do it. I use Gimp. It's a free program. There's ordinary options where you can cut and paste and then there are cool options like you can change the perspective of stuff as in angles. It's something they use in visual pinball. How do you think they made all those tables. It's all about manipulating images. I'm not perfect, but you can make these look alot better if you magnify them before you cut and paste. They still come out alright. It seems to help also with the tint if you take from one picture and paste to the next. (same image) then your tint will look uniform and always paste from two pics with the same res or as close as you can get. @BusHunter You had me going!!!!! Quote
Busjack Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 10 hours ago, BusHunter said: There's ordinary options where you can cut and paste and then there are cool options like you can change the perspective of stuff as in angles. In 8202 one can argue whether the numbers are lined up as well as decals, but doubling up with 8224 shows they are not. Quote
BusHunter Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 55 minutes ago, Busjack said: In 8202 one can argue whether the numbers are lined up as well as decals, but doubling up with 8224 shows they are not. The side's not perfect and looks like it might have something wrong with it. You can't have a convincing pic if the side decal is not right. At least we got to finally see some #8200's even if it is bs!! Quote
BusHunter Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 I cannot tell a lie!! (at least not until next year ) But #8197 is on the #70. You can check byron's site it appears. CTA must be getting braver. Quote
ChicagoNova Posted April 2, 2016 Report Posted April 2, 2016 8202 & 8224 in service already & at Chicago Garage? WHOA!! I didn't even see those at the South Shops yet. How did they get in service so fast? Quote
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