553 Bridgeton

17071/17080 moved to Ironbound, apparently they are short buses. But that resulted in egg harbor putting Nabis out on mci lines again today. We was supposed to have all 50 of the decamps and now know one knows what’s going on. We down a lot of buses with the decamps needing more work then thought. Doesn’t affect my pay so idc 🤷🏾‍♂️. 17084 looks as if it’s never coming.

On 10/26/2023 at 10:26 AM, DCTransitFilms said:

Likely is a 6354 replacement.

Also 5921 is active at Ironbound. Was on the 59 this morning.

17098 now at Egg Harbor

18124 was sent to CMF, assuming it will go to Oradell as the few 18120 series are there already. 

On 10/28/2023 at 11:12 PM, Lawrence St said:

I'm happy that I left NJT, because all these emergency picks are overwhelming. 

Speaking of, who here has operated a 319 down to Wildwood? I never got the chance to train on it south of AC, but was wondering how the run was structured.

They stopped meadowlands from going down to Wildwood back in 2020. They used to do the  and 830am trip to Cape May then dhd back to AC and pull the 5pm to NYC. Then on sat/sun they did Wildwood Exp or Ocean City Exp, and Cape May Exp to NYC local to north wildwood. By 2020 they only had a Sunday trip that left the garage at 1045am and did the 115 cape may express to nyc. Then discontinued. 
 

It’s a nice ride, all your doing is going in and out of the islands via the parkway. Only island you served fully was Ocean City/Avalon/Stone Harbor. Summer its busy and fall/winter it’s dead and boring. Register you would setup 1-37 or 39 if going to cape may. 

31 Atlantic City

32 Ocean City

33 Dead Zone

34 Ocean View/Sea Isle

35 Avalon

36 Stone Harbor

37 Wildwood

38 Lower Twp

39 Cape May

This is a real silly question, a route not serving Philly does not dictate that it shouldn’t have a low 400 series number. This lines used to service Philly before the cuts to Camden. No need to change the numbers. 

@46Dover 

11 hours ago, Sylveon said:

21069 Howell ran the 559 last night...

That bus been at eht for 3 days now and it was an egg harbor driver not Howell. 

54 minutes ago, DCTransitFilms said:

But using the Transdev garage then

Yes

6 hours ago, Cait Sith said:

They've already taken over transdev operations as of the 1st of this month. NJT is using the transdev garage for operations until they can figure out where they can store the buses and which garages will be willing to take on those routes. Howell already vetoed the idea of them operating those routes.

Funny enough Howell honestly has no say, it all comes down to Penn Plaza, if they say those lines are to go there then they will. And it make sense being Howell is so close and it give those guys more work especially on weekends. Right now Hamilton Garage is operating the lines. 

Enjoy!

2 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

For those curious as to where the CT's have been moving around as of late, I compiled some of the info provided here:

Meadowlands: 18069, 18086, 18092, 18097-18098, 18100-18102, 18105-18107, 18117-18119, 19124-19125, 21094-21190, 21277-21281, 21290, 21292, 21294

Egg Harbor: 17063, 17069-17073, 17079-17080, 17082, 17085-17086, 17088-17091, 17094-17097, 17099-17102, 17104-17108, 17111-17120, 18070-18072, 18075, 18079-18081, 18083-18085, 18093, 18095, 18099, 18103-18104, 18108-18116, 18120, 18124-18125

Oradell: 18073-18074, 18076, 18078, 18082, 18087-18088, 18091-18092, 18094, 18096, 18121-18123, 19122-19123, 21029-21036, 22011-22038, 22070-22118

I will not claim this to be 100% accurate and I didn't list every garage so feel free to respond with other moves and corrections. I do have the other garages listed on my roster site (Third link on the header).

18103 is at the meadowlands 

I’m currently on 21281 on the 188 to New York 

16:38 10/12/23

16 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:

18078 Oradell to Wayne

18090, 18122 Ironbound to Oradell

18078 is currently tracking on a Oradell 166 (166OD003 Block#). 18078 at Wayne could have very well been there for a break down. 

On 10/8/2023 at 9:48 PM, DCTransitFilms said:

Talking about the 2, 84, 88 only.

19 hours ago, NJTE said:

Oh yeah those haven’t returned.

 

When that contract is up those lines will return back to njt. The union city garage should be open by that time. 

6 hours ago, nightmare402 said:

you can track the 24 on Philadelphia transit vehicles? 

No, basically just do the nabi search and look in the general areas the lines operate and you’ll see which Nabis are on those lines. 

12 hours ago, Tranzitfan81 said:

Hopefully so because Washington Twp is short buses big time!!! Their NABIs are always used on MCI routes to compensate for the shortage of MCIs.  Camden NABIs are usually pulled to help them on the 400 and 403.   I know Coach USA had their own buses (6500s) and AC had a mixture of 6400s and a few 5900s....just thought there were enough buses for the NJT Takeover. 

Njt always orders bus with a low spare factor. Most garages don’t have a spare factor. Njt banks on the garages maintenance can get buses turned around quickly. Howell is the only garage with more then  100 or more buses available for spares(on weekends) as they only need about 62 available on weekends. They also bank on callouts which frees up buses as well. CMF can do an engine swap in 2-3days(3-4ppl)while Washington Twp takes 80hrs(1 person). So Twp now has to send any engine swaps to cmf. 

Those south Jersey Nabis are only temporary. Academy is only helping out until njt gets enough man power hired. A lot of the one bus guys have to leagally go through the hiring process and must complete the 21 day training. Unfortunately most of the A&C were njt ops that was fired. 

1 hour ago, DCTransitFilms said:

nvm both are tracking at Oradell now

18088 and 18096 Egg Harbor to Oradell

18091 is also tracking at Oradell 

7 hours ago, go25 said:

What if CMF did some maintenance on it, and Ironbound is testing it to make sure the bus runs before sending it back to Egg Harbor?

Well Egg Harbor is losing the 18000s because we are getting the decamp 17000s. Ironbound has 18090/18122.

9 hours ago, Kingsbridgeviewer382 said:

Your list is missing 17095 and 17114.

Also, was the part in bold a typo or an indication that 17101 is also there?

Yes 17101 is here I’m looking at it now at 22:02.  
 

also add 17104,17106

17071-17073, 17079-17080, 17082, 17085-17086, 17088-17091, 17094, 17096-17097, 17099-17100-17102, 17105-17108, 17111-17113, 17115-17120

Currently at egg harbor 

12 hours ago, DCTransitFilms said:

6473 tracking at CMF

17090 at Egg Harbor

There’s 6 new 17s at eht. I didn’t get the numbers of the ones in the lane, but 17106 is one of them. 

22 minutes ago, 46Dover said:

Oh snap we got 7130???

Not for long, that bus is getting retired. You guys are getting all of the coach USA 21s to push the remaining 71s/9000s into retirement. 

17096 Egg Harbor

18101 to Meadowlands 

18114 to Egg Harbor 

17101 Egg Habor

They are using Ironbound as a test bed for the heating and a/c before they send them down. As we are having problems with failing a/c due to tons of rusted parts.