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AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Feb 10 17:17:45 2007     My apologies regarding the lighting of the bottom two shots. |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by The Port of Authority on Sat Feb 10 17:27:18 2007, in response to AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Feb 10 17:17:45 2007. What year are the Gillig Phantoms? Those must have been some of the first Gillig Phantoms ever produced. |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Feb 10 17:40:24 2007, in response to Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by The Port of Authority on Sat Feb 10 17:27:18 2007. I'm not sure. They looked pretty new at the time, so the might have been from 1982 or '83. |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by roscoman1986 on Sun Feb 11 03:03:10 2007, in response to Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by The Port of Authority on Sat Feb 10 17:27:18 2007. 1983 models, retired in 2003-2004 after a refurbishment. |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Feb 12 10:36:19 2007, in response to AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Feb 10 17:17:45 2007. Great pics! All of the models in the first pic were still in service during my first visit to the SF Bay Area in August 1988. I remember seeing them parked on the ramps of the Transbay Terminal in downtown SF. AC Transit had a pretty varied fleet in the late 80s: Flxible and GM New Looks, M-A-N artics, Gillig Phantoms, Flyer D901s (?), even Neoplan AN440As! |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by Scrabbleship on Mon Feb 12 10:47:31 2007, in response to AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Feb 10 17:17:45 2007. Whoever spec'd those MAN artics had to be on something. I know that AC Transit has never had an need for air conditioning, but tossing unopenable windows into the mix must have made them hell to ride on warm days, even moreso when the Bay Area had heat waves. I can only shudder to think how bad it was on the ill-fated RTS's AC Transit had that were gone after only a year.Is it me, or did the Bay Area generally have VERY bad luck with ADB models. Between AC Transit's RTS's and Muni's Grumman 870's, plus the tax benefits California offered to Flyer and Gillig, it made for a much different bus scene then vs. the east coast (and even LA for that matter). |
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Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos) |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Feb 12 14:03:39 2007, in response to Re: AC Transit (Oakland, Ca.) Bus Photos August 1983 (Large Photos), posted by Scrabbleship on Mon Feb 12 10:47:31 2007. I agree w/ your ADB assessment concerning the Bay Area (though Santa Clara VTA (or whatever they were called back then) had a large number of Grumman 870s (and still has a few Metros)), but the LA-area agencies were pretty much into the ADBs, with the exception of Santa Monica, who after getting burned by Grumman, went back to basics by buying first Fishbowls from GMDD of Canada, and later the Fishbowl sucessor, the MCI Classic. |
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