CTA Paper Buses

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Here's the M.A.N Superbus

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Here's a 7100-Series M.A.N in the current livery

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Here's a 7300-Series M.A.N in current livery

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Here's everybody's favorite(either because they are a fan of this bus or just to heckle it's early demise)... the 7500-Series NABI 60-LFW

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Here's a 7300-Series in Seattle livery

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Ok, here is the NABI Compobus. Sometimes I wonder if we got the 24 others in the original order during the great NABI fiasco, I wonder if they would've still been in service today or would they have self-destructed like the 60-LFW's did...

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[jajuan]

I tried the color for the Pine you suggested, but Paint labeled that one as Turquoise... so I did a little tweaking to a Dark Green I did find, and hopefully made it more of a Pine Green...

The Americana is missing a window that was positioned forward of the rear doors. It was shaped something like a vertical oval.

[Busjack]

Ok, here is the NABI Compobus. Sometimes I wonder if we got the 24 others in the original order during the great NABI fiasco, I wonder if they would've still been in service today or would they have self-destructed like the 60-LFW's did...

LA is still running them (and had a virtual single source procurement for more), and being a cast composite, I doubt that they would have had the same steel structural problems that the 60LFWs did.

Of course, the real question was whether this got killed because NABI was going bankrupt and couldn't afford to make them, their Buy America Act waivers expired, or the you know what was already starting to hit the fan.

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The Americana is missing a window that was positioned forward of the rear doors. It was shaped something like a vertical oval.

Check out the drawing now and the one on page five in the new livery.

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Here's the Fishbowl in the new livery...

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Here's a rare bus built in house... the Frankenbus!!!

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I went a little further back with the GM Fishbowls and made one from the early 1960's... CTA Series 100-249

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Here's the GM Fishbowl again, this time in the Pine & Lime livery.

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[Busjack]

I went a little further back with the GM Fishbowls and made one from the early 1960's... CTA Series 100-249

You have to go back to the color picker, as this looks like an Evanston Bus Co. bus (brown). Use the eyedropper on basically the "dark green" of the lime and pine models.

[jajuan]

Check out the drawing now and the one on page five in the new livery.

Yes that's a more accurate depiction of CTA's version of the Americana.

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You have to go back to the color picker, as this looks like an Evanston Bus Co. bus (brown). Use the eyedropper on basically the "dark green" of the lime and pine models.

Check it now, Busjack.

[Busjack]

Check it now, Busjack.

That's closer.

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Here's another livery idea just tossed around in my mind if the CTA ever went away from the white with the red and blue stripe.

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[Busjack]

Here's another livery idea just tossed around in my mind if the CTA ever went away from the white with the red and blue stripe.

If you intended yellow, orange, and red, that hits me as too extreme.

However, since this is a matter of taste, doesn't matter one way or the other.

Now, I'll throw out a totally perverse idea:

It was reported that CMC painted buses different colors for north, south and west side routes. If CTA did that (in real life), that would sure kill the "More Bus Moves" thread. Even though totally unworkable, how about ultraviolet buses for Pace West? Shocking pink (sort of like the Chevy Spark) for North Shore?

But if memory serves me, Pittsburgh had various different metallic colors for its buses at the same time.

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If you intended yellow, orange, and red, that hits me as too extreme.

It was yellow, orange and red, Busjack. And I do agree that the color mixture was extreme, just experimentation with possible livery ideas... like this one. This is mostly light blue with a strip of blue at the bottom and white around the windows.

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[Busjack]

It was yellow, orange and red, Busjack. And I do agree that the color mixture was extreme, just experimentation with possible livery ideas... like this one. This is mostly light blue with a strip of blue at the bottom and white around the windows.

Opinion: too close to Pace.

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Opinion: too close to Pace.

Yeah, it did look like a PACE bus too much. This one is a little more unique... dark blue, gold roof, light yellow panels on the bottom and brown around the windows.

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One last livery for the moment... 1980's pine and lime meets todays white, blue and red.

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[Busjack]

Yeah, it did look like a PACE bus too much. This one is a little more unique... dark blue, gold roof, light yellow panels on the bottom and brown around the windows.

If you got some slate into it, it would be similar to the original RTA colors, which CTA hated.

I guess that Pace didn't want them, either.

Of course, similar to the 1940s Rapid Transit colors, on the commemorative train.

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Here's a new take on the white, red and blue livery currently in use. It might be close to the NABI Compobus livery, since red is the dominant color. It's dark red along the panels, red on the sides, blue along the windows and white on the roof.

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