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Huh, that's interesting and it sounds like a genuinely good idea from the MTA for once, those RTSes taken care of could last close to two decades. 190, sounds like most of the 1996s still on the streets will be getting that overhaul then. Good news as I see it.

8750 is in Gersow scrap yard it was picked up monday evening, not OOS I personally check the shifters log at ECH.

 

Ah, I figured it'd been scrapped but I couldn't confirm and it was only listed as OOS. Shame that that bus is officially gone, that's basically the last TMC in the fleet.

There'll be a whole new batch of 400s coming in soon too...

Man does LGA have a ton of 1996s registered to the depot: 8756, 8764, 8768, 8798, 8803, 8806, 8810, 8838, 8844, 8849, 8852, 8855, 8860, 8862, 8864, 8867, 8872, 8881, 8885, 8889, 8907, 8913, 8920-8921, 8928, 8932, 8936, 8939, 8945, 8955-8956, 8966, 8987, 9002, 9005, 9009, 9014, 9019, 9022, 9027, 9079, 9085, 9094, 9098, 9107, 9132, 9139, 9167, 9174, 9188, 9191-9192, 9212, 9215, 9259, 9265, 9291, 9302, 9307-9308, 9310, 9317, 9321, 9333, 9338, 9340, 9348-9349

That's 68 buses! Granted about 8 of them are in the shops / at Zerega, but that's a good chunk of RTSes.

7266, 9859, and 9884 oos.

?? 9575 assigned to FB?

428 at Gleason now , just pulled in off the 16 .

 

All of the 400s through 429 are registered at Gleason.

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I'm seeing that the RTSes left at ECH are 8934, 8938, 8941-8944, 8948, 8964, 8967, 8991, 9034, 9126, and 9248. The remainder have been sent to LGA while 8750 and 8963 are OOS.

ECH's O5s are as follows: 6005, 6008, 6010, 6012-6014, 6017, 6019-6020, 6023, 6027-6028 from what I'm seeing. Contrary to what I've seen here, 6029-6038 are registered at KB but that may be changing soon / now.

Speaking of O5s, the six 1996s at CS are 639-640, 644, 647, 655, and 662.

8764,8806, 8862 & 8933 are at Zerega in the overhaul program. I delivered 8933 to Zerega for overhaul Tuesday afternoon.

 

Overhauls? That's a surprise, 8764 is getting on for 17 years old and the others aren't far off. I thought overhauls stopped after 12-13 years...I guess they're registered to LGA since they're slotted to be there for return.

Reading now that all of WF's O5 CNGs have been taken out of service, not sure if they've been shipped off to Eastchester or if they're in the storage lot, maybe somebody can check on this. They're not operating in any case.

Walked around Tuskegee today, unfortunately the XD60 is long gone from there, but my real observation was that that's a depot that looks short. No buses were available to be taken out (only three-four were in the depot, all being worked on) and a couple ops were waiting for buses.

7626-7628 appear to have also made the journey to the Farms.

KB is bleeding a few D60s: 5263, 5276, 5286, 5289, 5294, 5297, 5299 and 5307 all listed as OOS.

8764, 8806, 8860, 8862, 8864 all listed as LGA buses (I know some of those have been reported, just thought I'd put it all together). 8933 is gone.

Weirdest of all which I'm going to try to personally got out and check, hearing that 8796 is an ENY bus. Another stumper: 9112 is enabled for BusTime.

Was with a friend of mine today down by Marcy and he ran out of money so he jumped the turnstile. Literally wanted to slap him, grown man and all. Looking at me all like 'did I do something?'

Different bus; it's the police TMC.

I don't get these moves at all, but i knew the NG's were gonna go to ENY, ive said that 2 years ago, what I think what they are gonna wind up doing is giving all the 96 Nova's to MTA bus by the end of this year, most of them would go to LGA first to replace thier Bee-Line orion V's, BP has a chance of getting some RTS back as well, meaning Jamaica depot would ether get More NG's,RTS or get the OG's from CS or QV, ive seen OG's from QV being Maintained (mostlikely trainned) in jamaica depot numerous times so it wouldn't be a big shock, or even Orion V's (orion V's were at Jamaica depot before, Ive seen it for myself, They just never used them (they got sent back) , I know CS is gonna get more Artics in the fall because the MTA wants the Q44 100% Artics in the fall, and i know CS is not gonna give up most of its Orion V's so Jamaica might see something wierd as well as QV

 

don't know what's going on ... 4596 & 4220 are loaners . Eny is lending their buses to up/ga . Ulmer park still has 5039 & 40 , 5007 too but that one is out they're doing a lot of work on it .

 

Kinda figuerd they were loaners, but ill be out there looking to get shots of these

 

I wouldn't think too hard about it...chances are good these are just a few minor bus moves amongst various depots while the NGs are sent out due to the recall. One depot needs a bus here, another needs a bus there, etc. Doubt there's anything major going on here, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.

WF put side ads on all their 5950s from what I've seen, either on the trailer section or the tractor section. Nothing on the rear or door side though.

Maybe it's just me, but I always take it as some sorta personal insult when somebody holds up the money I give them. It's just flat out saying "I don't trust you and you could be a crook" without actually using the words.

5953 was on the Bx15 today.

3898-3899 came over in March, surprised nobody's stickered them up yet.

6667 got re-registered but oddly not repainted like 7720.

4596 from Flatbush at east new York , spotted with eny stickers on the b15 15 minutes ago at new lots not spotted by me .

 

Not okay. I like my NG-less ENY fleet c'mon now...they didn't even have to train drivers?

Oh well.

5090 at Flatbush from Ulmer Park

 

Another ZFer...keep them away please. Don't like those buses at all, maybe they're better from an op's view though.

The left side of my chest has been hurting a little. Out of curiosity, I looked up the symptons for a heart attack, and it said that that's one of the symptoms. The thing is that it's happened before, and it looks like it's the only symptom I have, so I doubt it's anything (especially since most men don't get heart attacks until the age of 40, and I'm 17). I mean, I'm young and healthy (but then again, that's what they all say). It's still kind of scary, though.

 

Heartburn?

^ I see we're getting nice and philosophical, but you'll never break, never break, never break this heart of stone.

Shaking it up a little, from a few years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEXF_VSI9U

700s are still around? I am surprised. Just a few hours ago I saw an 800~ on the B9, so there is at least one around...

 

SC still has them. And there are still a ton of 800s left, you just gotta ride the right routes. There're tons going out of the B16, B35, and B43, not so much other routes though.

On the contrary, the first two stops garnered a LOT of riders! The M9 was the supplement of the M14A at the time.

 

Yep, I used to get that bus from there a whole lot and occasionally I'd even take the M9 instead of the M14 if I had a transfer along 14th. Union Square was not an awful place for the bus, I think Bellevue should be served by the M34.

Ps...as the train was passing by 5 pointz, I saw a lot with TA MCI's parked in it. I couldnt see numbers because it was too far away but the entrance to the lot is right on the same street as 5 pointz?? Anybody know what depot this lot belongs to?? (I'm not very familiar with queens depots if you can't tell)

 

It's a QV lot like mentioned, used for the X63, X64, and X68.

Baskin Robbins sale.

Here's something of a surprise, 5054 at Quill.

Was on the F wondering if the R42s were still running on the A, knowing I'd transfer at Jay St Metrotech. Figured there was no chance, and if there was, I'd miss it. Sure enough, F pulls into JSM and there's an R42 A sitting there...which pulls away right as I get there. Oh well.

You probably didn't download mono and SDL.framework. Even if you have the new binary, you need those two things.

 

I did, I followed all the notes that people on this forum made. I ended up switching it all to Boot Camp and now it runs fine.