Novabus 5000

8997 at JFK

8813, 8920, 8955, 9045, 9071 and 9107 at College Point 

creds to me for giving you that info tho lolol

Okay, so just got word from my friend at stengel.

Those buses are supposed to go back to their respective depots between now and tomorrow. He has  one now and was told pull it into QV when hes done. 

^^^

As per my operator friend from stengel, there are about 20 LFSs at CS

Which depot is 7200 going to be assigned upon? Flatbush? FP? Maspeth?

 

9691 is on the B48 tonight.

How about you sit down and wait to see...

8046 & 8077 repainted, same way with no front stripe

We may see some quick loans in the next few days if the temperature stay low, as the hybrids drop like flies when it does.

Among these most likely will be C40s on JFK routes. 

It would of been nice for 5000-5010 to retire

at ENY. 97's moved out of flatbush so quick. I wonder What's going to happen with the rts at flatbush when their new bus orders come in. Flatbush has been an all rts depot for a long time despite having ng's in 08.

Thats a dumb statement. Why would they retire those buses when they aren't slated to be.

The 97-98 RTSs at Flatbush will be done as so:

The Best ones to MTA Bus, the worst to scrap. 

So we have 8999 going from ENY to Grand, yet we have 9484 go from Grand to QV.

 

Therefore they should have sent 8999 to QV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Bangs head against wall.

Relax chile....

3869 to QV, just spotted on the Q46

What's the reasoning behind these moves?

As per the higher ups at WF, its a shortage.

Do you guys think that they NEED to keep the 5000's & 4900's?

Yes. 

Because some of you don't know the retirement plans for these high floor buses, here is what ACTUALLY is happening, coming from my sources who WORK at MTA:

Option 1:

414 Novabus LFSs & 276 New Flyer XD40s are taken, with an option of 350 buses being taken as well (manufacture unknown at the time):
>First, all the 1996-97 Novabus RTSs WILL, WILL, WILL retire. That includes buses from 8750-9349.

>Next, ALL the Orion Vs WILL retire. These buses (the TA ordered ones anyways) have frame rot, and various units have cracked axles.

>THEN The worst of the 1997-98 Novabus RTS batch (9350-9699) will go to scrap, and the better ones will go to MTA Bus.

> After all of that, the 1998-99 Novabus RTSs (4902-5249) will be the only high floors left at transit.

Option 2:

414 Novabus LFSs, 276 New Flyer XD40s and all 700 options are taken:

>All high floors are retired, and MTA Bus will get a cut of of the options to retire RTSs and Orion Vs at depots that have them now.

These are the Choices that the MTA are sticking too.

7090 added.

 

 

Oh, I spotted 1016 on East 103 St and Flatlands Avenue with JFK stickers, not in service and with papers all in it - I couldn't see what they said though.

More then likely it is doing CMF testing. A lot of those 1000s have been at ENY CMF for work and they have been taking them everywhere for testing to make sure the repairs are good.

Incase no one mentioned it, 3992 to JFK. I spotted it on the 7 yesterday.

8832 is NOT a blackback. It is a whiteback, saw it last week. Also, 174, 180 and 183 have been repainted but also have blackbacks.

Just because.

Add 9195 if it isn't already there. 180 is also redone.

Some screenshots from a 2 train trip I did a few nights ago:

Enjoy!

You're a month late, 4934-4943 and 5028 from JA are at UP. 4944 was apart of the group too but it went to east New York last week. They've all been at UP for a little over a month now.

To add to this, the main reason these went to UP was to replace 9390-9399. Jamaica Only sent QV 35 Next Gens while QV sent them 45 LFSs, and so UP sent 9390-9399 and then Jamaica Sent out these. 

Incase no one pointed it out (since I don't stalk this page), 9311, 9112, 9236, 9231 and 9203 are all at JFK, along with 5205, 5207 and 5209. 

to be honest 207th don't need em, they have more than enough, my guess is that they want to finish up the SMS, and one pair of the 4 cars are still at CI, these were supposed to be for work service but i guess they changed their minds and only a pair was in service (the worst one at that) 3370/71 always had been stored, even when it was at jamaica that pair wasn't used as much

So wait, the 4 that left ENY are now running on the C, after their SMS?

Does anyone know if we are still getting the replacement for 1804, the extra bus, and the 4 MTA pilot units? Heard nothing of that for a while.

 

1804 - Gone, Done deal.

Not sure of what extra bus your talking about.

MTA Buses - Those were never actually fully built, but the frames went onto the NICE buses.

Can anyone pass on the numbers for these cars that were moved?

In the event that a set of R32s has to go into service on the C in an emergency situation, would the train be 10 cars to match the R46s or 8 cars like they normally are?

1613's left side now has one of those "King Kong"(If that's the name of it) side wrap! I have a pic, but don't know how to upload it on here.

 

1613 or 1713?!?!