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32 minutes ago, Adam Hubbard said:

Is the last of the 8700s, upcoming 8800-8949 going to be shipped to North Park, or will any of the South Side Garages will acquire it's last batches when this is all said and done?

TBD at this point, SS has about 20 #8700s left to inspect and prep for revenue service. No 8800s have been delivered yet, the highest so far to be delivered is #8796. 

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On 10/13/2024 at 10:21 PM, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

#8755-8756, 8758, 8766, 8768, 8774, and 8778 have been shipped out to north park today with #4203.

8731-8732, 8761, 8763-8764, 8769-8771 and 8773 remain at FG awaiting fareboxes soon to be shipped out as well. 

At least for the time being,  8731 and 8732 are operating out of FG.   It appears that everything else has been or will be shipped to North Park.   Good to see CTA finally sending out new Novas to NP.   

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On 10/13/2024 at 11:41 PM, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

the 8800-8849 range is part of the 8750-8849 range and most likely be north park. 

Not necessarily all. Overall, CTA is keeping 400 of the 1000s in service. That's makes it unlikely that NP will get all those Novas, especially when 74th has to get past the roughly ten or so it's gotten so far. Seems likelier they'd get split somehow between 74th and NP. 

17 hours ago, artthouwill said:

At least for the time being,  8731 and 8732 are operating out of FG.   It appears that everything else has been or will be shipped to North Park.   Good to see CTA finally sending out new Novas to NP.   

There was never really doubt that NP was going to get something out of this bus order. 

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19 hours ago, artthouwill said:

At least for the time being,  8731 and 8732 are operating out of FG.   It appears that everything else has been or will be shipped to North Park.   Good to see CTA finally sending out new Novas to NP.   

#8731-32 are “temporarily” out of F according to one of my sources. speaking of which, 8774 and 8778 have debuted out of NP yesterday.

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11 minutes ago, Mr.NewFlyer1279 said:

#8731-32 are “temporarily” out of F according to one of my sources. speaking of which, 8774 and 8778 have debuted out of NP yesterday.

I took that into consideration when I said " For the time being" which indicates I recognize that at some point these two buses could very well wind up at NP, but currently are operating out of FG.  Is just the other buses transitioned there but these rwo haven't.   Yet.

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1 hour ago, andrethebusman said:

8949 is said to have been driven out the factory door at Plattsburgh Friday 10/18 ending Nova US production. 

Well it's an end to interesting Era to say the very least for the LFS in regards to CTA. The 6400s will always be my favorite series out of all.

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