Ed T.

It must be "Take your Antique Buses out on a Sunday Cruise!" Sunday at HCRR. And where better to cruise your antique buses than southern Etobicoke! Southern Etobicoke loves antique buses!

7913 seen on 2 Anglesey 48 Renforth Rathburn. I hope it's "lucky 13" and hangs in there like its ancestor 7013! (Where did the 1996 Orion V retirement thread go? Oh, there it is!)

7920 seen on 111 East Mall.

7970 laying over at Long Branch loop on 110A.

Toronto Transportation Commission Peter Witt Orion VII OG (sooo OG) 7970 hanging out on 110A Islington South.

I seem to recall it was GO transit that had "TAKE NEXT BUS" up as destination for out of service buses. If I'm right, when did that practice end?

Ancient and no doubt about-to-be-retired-if-it's-not-retired-already TTC 7909 seen dark and early Friday morning making time up 427, not in service. In the afternoon, seen at Islington station on 37A. Unknown if it was out all day.

TTC 7960 on the 50.

It should stay clear of Wesburne Lodge.

TTC 7933 avoiding the retirement home by running around on 123B Shorncliffe Sherway.

And its kid brother? sister? 7934 on what must be 50 Burnhamthorpe.

I noticed today that there are still some old-style overhead hangers on College St., notably WB around Euclid. However, 506 is operating with pantographs. Would these hangers have been missed, or is it that a few of them don't make any difference?

TTC Hand-Me-Down Sightings

7909* and 7974 seen on 123C Shorncliffe Sherway.

*For those who are wondering what's going on with the 790X buses, this one is still out there and in service.

TTC 1111 hoofing it on 401 eastbound around Dixon before 6 AM.

An Eglinton night bus going back to the garage?

Dybrids!!!1!

TTC 1054 on the hook, being towed north on Keele towards St. Clair.

TTC Hand Me Down sightings: 7962 on 50 Burnhamthorpe.

You can also call them "hearings". The exhaust note is distinctive.

Not sure where else to put this....

Grey and white LRV on a float, turning from Trethewey to Todd Baylis. Obviously an Eglinton Crosstown unit. I'm not even certain if it was a Flexity.

4 minutes ago, GTAtransitfan1-Toronto said:

So lemme get this straight, every time I see an RAD as it happens, just like any movement or RAD I decide to report, if it comes out of my mouth, it's in a way invalid, it never happened, but if comes out of someone else's mouth, it's valid. Did I get that correct? 

I don't think you got that correctly.

A RAD is a Run as Directed. Nothing special about the bus going to the other side of the city if it was directed there.

Everyone puts up a gazillion RAD sightings as special. I'm not sure that they should be counted as such.

Maybe there needs to be a "RAD sightings" thread to document that 7900 out at Starspray loop....

TTC Hand Me Down sightings

7935 on 123C in the early AM
7945 on 189
7944 owning 44

Too many others to remember....

When and how did the TTC use the streetcar tracks running south from Queen on Neville Park?

A part of the trackage is set in concrete, so it can't be from a hundred years ago. The rest further south is not visible except for bad pavement over the tracks themselves.

Neville Park is a dead end with houses right around the end, and it was a dead end back in the late 1920s which is the earliers aerial photo I can find (and that photo has nowhere the resolution to see details of the track). If the tracks were serving the beach or some amusement park, that park seems to have been gone by the late '20s.

The tracks also seem to run right down to the dead end, which is quite a distance.

Hand-me-down TTC 7973 heading south on Brown's Line on 123C.

7934 on 50,

TTC Handmedowns

7930 on 37A
7969 and 7922 NIS on Islington Ave
7927 on 110A

Islington station bus lot looking awfully empty and desolate.

TTC  7975 rumbling by on 50 Burnhamthorpe.

Needs black paint in the window area to really hit the CLRV vibe.

7977 cruising on 123B Shorncliffe Sherway in glorious hand-me-down CLRV paint scheme.

It's a long way to Kipling station
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to Kipling station
To the sweetest route I know!
Good bye to ratty Bloor St
Farewell Islington
It's a long long way to Kipling station
But Miway's right there

7926 seen going about its business on 123C.

7976 seen on 111.

Hey, it's 2021. Shouldn't these be in the special sightings thread, or the Orion VII retirements thread?

If someone creates an OMG MORE HAND ME DOWN BUSES Sightings thread, I'm all in for it.

17 hours ago, Orion V said:

I find it strange the OG HEVs are much more reliable than their NG counterparts. What did Orion screwed up in the newer ones? Software?

Iirc, the reason the 1200s are better than 1500/1700s are because they have older more reliable software? Can the same be said about the 1000s?

According to the wiki, almost all of the 1200-1423 buses were rebuilt. The later hybrids were not rebuilt. I would assume that a lot of the difference is right there, and that the later NG HEV buses would retire later than the earlier HEVs if all of them had been through the same maintenance procedures. In other words, an older but rebuilt HEV is better than a newer one that's about ready for a rebuild, but (as has been discovered) not really worth rebuilding.

That would not explain rebuilt OG HEVs outlasting NG HEVs, unless there was a difference in the rebuilt. Perhaps Bus Medic would have some info here.

TTC 3737 seen on 41 Keele. This is the first time I've seen a battery bus on Keele.

They were (and are) frequent on 58 Maple Leaf. I wonder what the chances are of catching a meetup of a couple of different kinds of battery buses, at Keele and Ingram/Gulliver.

Is the wooden bus stop pole holding up the stop sign for eastbound Lonsdale at Russel Hill a remnant of the Hill Coach?

It's almost impossible to get a good google streetview of it. Here's my best attempt.

5 minutes ago, bus_7246 said:

It’s been cleared for some time now. At least a few years

Apologies, I thought I put this in the Misc TTC questions.

I know it's been cleared for years. But I drove by today, and there's plenty of equipment out and driving around, looks like digging up stuff. I didn't get a good look unfortunately. That all is different from the years when.....nothing happened on the site.