andrethebusman Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 City of Highland Park 2661,2662,2668,2681 Fox Valley Division 2627,2675-2677,2700, 2701,2704-2706,2729,2761,2776,2826-2829 Heritage Division 2730,2751,2762,2764 MV Batavia 2670,2697,2698,2740,2744,2745, 2747,2750,2812 Northwest Division 2769-2772,2774-2779, 2781-2784,2797,2801 (2774,2778,2781,2783, 2801 out of service) River Division 2651-2659,2674,2696,2702, 2707,2710,2714,2716,2720,2723,2725,2739 (2651,2653,2658,2707,2725 out of service, 2720,2723 contingency fleet) Southwest Division 2753,2754,2756,2759, 2785,2787,2791,2815,2816,2818,2819, 2821-2825 (2756,2759,2822 out of service) Village of Niles 2601,2640-2644,2646-2649 Unassigned Contingency Fleet 2605,2611,2616,2620,2622,2625,2631-2634, 2636-2638,2660,2663,2682,2685,2727,2728, 2732 Unassigned out of service 2621,2626,2630,2639,2645,2669,2683,2688, 2693,2703,2709,2711,2712,2715,2717,2722, 2724,2726,2731,2734-2738,2741-2743,2748, 2752,2755,2758,2760,2763,2765,2786,2788- 2790,2792,2800,2808,2814,2817,2820 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 17 hours ago, andrethebusman said: City of Highland Park 2661,2662,2668,2681 Fox Valley Division 2627,2675-2677,2700, 2701,2704-2706,2729,2761,2776,2826-2829 Heritage Division 2730,2751,2762,2764 MV Batavia 2670,2697,2698,2740,2744,2745, 2747,2750,2812 Northwest Division 2769-2772,2774-2779, 2781-2784,2797,2801 (2774,2778,2781,2783, 2801 out of service) River Division 2651-2659,2674,2696,2702, 2707,2710,2714,2716,2720,2723,2725,2739 (2651,2653,2658,2707,2725 out of service, 2720,2723 contingency fleet) Southwest Division 2753,2754,2756,2759, 2785,2787,2791,2815,2816,2818,2819, 2821-2825 (2756,2759,2822 out of service) Village of Niles 2601,2640-2644,2646-2649 Unassigned Contingency Fleet 2605,2611,2616,2620,2622,2625,2631-2634, 2636-2638,2660,2663,2682,2685,2727,2728, 2732 Unassigned out of service 2621,2626,2630,2639,2645,2669,2683,2688, 2693,2703,2709,2711,2712,2715,2717,2722, 2724,2726,2731,2734-2738,2741-2743,2748, 2752,2755,2758,2760,2763,2765,2786,2788- 2790,2792,2800,2808,2814,2817,2820 2776 is not at FV, you listed that twice. Interesting that 2822 is still on the SW roster, maybe one day it'll run again. Interesting 2685 is not permanently assigned to Niles for a replacement of 2645. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 18 hours ago, andrethebusman said: City of Highland Park 2661,2662,2668,2681 ... ... River Division 2651-2659, ... (2651,2653,2658 ...out of service, ...) .... Unassigned Contingency Fleet 2605,2611,2616,2620,2622,2625,2631-2634, 2636-2638,2660,2663,2682,2685,2727,2728, 2732 .... Highland Park: Since those I indicated in bold under contingency fleet are all but one of HP's former fleet (2639 not reflected) and HP has run only 2600s on Ravinia service the past couple of years, that must be the contingency. 2651-2659: That's all that used to be at NS. Given that, I don't see Metzger's comment that NS is also crowded, nor all the 208/250/Pulse deadheads on Golf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 10 minutes ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: ...Interesting 2685 is not permanently assigned to Niles for a replacement of 2645. @maths22's tracker has it there since 11/16/2024. You probably have an earlier date 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 13 minutes ago, Busjack said: @maths22's tracker has it there since 11/16/2024. You probably have an earlier date 🤔 2685 was first used on 5/20/24. Did you not use the Load More button on the history? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrethebusman Posted February 14 Author Report Share Posted February 14 5 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: 2776 is not at FV, you listed that twice. Interesting that 2822 is still on the SW roster, maybe one day it'll run again. Interesting 2685 is not permanently assigned to Niles for a replacement of 2645. FV has 2766. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 12 minutes ago, andrethebusman said: FV has 2766. Right, I almost forgot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted May 3 Report Share Posted May 3 2826 was involved in an accident on Tuesday, pretty much done for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotjohns Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 On 5/3/2025 at 6:26 PM, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: 2826 was involved in an accident on Tuesday, pretty much done for. Notwithstanding 2826, 2827-2829 have all been absent in recent weeks. No sign of 2828 in months. It's possible they could all be retired. We'll know if we start seeing other buses from other garages move there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Hubbard Posted July 21 Report Share Posted July 21 These buses will last until the 2030s and receive a rebuild rather than getting replacements for those 2600s by Pace. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 7 hours ago, Adam Hubbard said: These buses will last until the 2030s and receive a rebuild rather than getting replacements for those 2600s by Pace. Again, you proved that you don't know, and you didn't read Pace's electrification plan, nor understood Pace's recent order of 24 35' Gillig hybrids. Besides that, you missed that probably a majority of the 2600s were sold to a scrapper when Pace dropped feeder routes. Why pollute the Internet with your misinformation Adam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted July 22 Report Share Posted July 22 2691 still exists and is still in use as a training bus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted July 23 Report Share Posted July 23 On 2/14/2025 at 9:42 AM, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: Interesting 2685 is not permanently assigned to Niles for a replacement of 2645. Although I saw an unwrapped bus in Niles a couple of months back, it appears that the tracker is short and any replacement buses are not on it. Is that the case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted September 18 Report Share Posted September 18 The West Division E-Z riders do not have fareboxes, money collection boxes, or Ventra readers. I finally found 2636 today on the 309. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted September 18 Report Share Posted September 18 1 hour ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: The West Division E-Z riders do not have fareboxes, money collection boxes, or Ventra readers. I finally found 2636 today on the 309. They must have been stripped before being put on hiatus in Highland Park, and the exterior doesn't look that bad. On the other hand, if they are in revenue service, there must be some 6323s in real bad shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Mishkin Jr. Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 4 hours ago, Busjack said: They must have been stripped before being put on hiatus in Highland Park, and the exterior doesn't look that bad. On the other hand, if they are in revenue service, there must be some 6323s in real bad shape. They still run 6374 even though that bus is no good amazes me, they failed to fix the Trapeze plus I saw it today. Including 6374 there were 40 of 53 Eldorados assigned to West Division that have ran in the month of September. For Xcelsiors, only 7 out of 85 (with 20459 retired and 20472 in an accident, totals to 5/83) Xcelsiors did not run in the month of September. So West Division has about 118 buses right now active not including the E-Z Riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artthouwill Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 12 hours ago, Erin Mishkin Jr. said: They still run 6374 even though that bus is no good amazes me, they failed to fix the Trapeze plus I saw it today. Including 6374 there were 40 of 53 Eldorados assigned to West Division that have ran in the month of September. For Xcelsiors, only 7 out of 85 (with 20459 retired and 20472 in an accident, totals to 5/83) Xcelsiors did not run in the month of September. So West Division has about 118 buses right now active not including the E-Z Riders. There definitely has been an uptick in the amount of 6323s in service recently. I had figured that the EZ Riders were being used as training buses. But if West gets low enough due to buses with maintenance issues combined with some quirks with pull outs and pull ins mixed with a driver shortage, that's a bad recipe . Although the shortage problem isn't as severe as before, it's still in existence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busjack Posted September 19 Report Share Posted September 19 4 hours ago, artthouwill said: There definitely has been an uptick in the amount of 6323s in service recently. I had figured that the EZ Riders were being used as training buses. But if West gets low enough due to buses with maintenance issues combined with some quirks with pull outs and pull ins mixed with a driver shortage, that's a bad recipe . Although the shortage problem isn't as severe as before, it's still in existence It must be worse than you think if several Highland Park buses without fare boxes and other accessories are out there, as @Erin Mishkin Jr. posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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